./devel/libev, Full-featured and high-performance event loop

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 4.33, Package name: libev-4.33, Maintainer: tonio

Libev is modelled (very losely) after libevent and the Event perl
module, but is faster, scales better and is more correct, more
featureful, and smaller. Some of the specialties of libev not
commonly found elsewhere are:

- extensive and detailed, readable documentation (not doxygen garbage).
- fully supports fork, can detect fork in various ways and automatically
re-arms kernel mechanisms that do not support fork.
- highly optimised select, poll, epoll, kqueue and event ports backends.
- filesystem object (path) watching (with optional linux inotify support).
- wallclock-based times (using absolute time, cron-like).
- relative timers/timeouts (handle time jumps).
- fast intra-thread communication between multiple
event loops (with optional fast linux eventfd backend).
- extremely easy to embed.
- very small codebase, no bloated library.
- fully extensible by being able to plug into the event loop,
integrate other event loops, integrate other event loop users.
- very little memory use (small watchers, small event loop data).
- optional C++ interface allowing method and function callbacks
at no extra memory or runtime overhead.
- optional Perl interface with similar characteristics
- support for other languages (multiple C++ interfaces, D, Ruby,
Python) available from third-parties.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 556.179 KB

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   2023-07-31 11:13:58 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libev: prefer kqueue(2) over epoll(2) on NetBSD
   2021-10-26 12:20:11 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3016) 
Log message:
archivers: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Could not be committed due to merge conflict:
devel/py-traitlets/distinfo

The following distfiles were unfetchable (note: some may be only fetched
conditionally):

./devel/pvs/distinfo pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
./devel/eclipse/distinfo eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
   2021-10-07 15:44:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3017) 
Log message:
devel: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-12-04 16:56:10 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libev: Build with _REENTRANT on SunOS.

Fixes issues seen with multithreaded programs on illumos.  Reported by
andyf @ OmniOS.
   2020-05-23 18:19:10 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
libev: Fix build on NetBSD/sparc

From Tobias Ulmer, thanks.
   2020-03-22 17:01:46 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
libev: Update to 4.33

4.33 Wed Mar 18 13:22:29 CET 2020
	- no changes w.r.t. 4.32.

4.32 (EV only)
	- the 4.31 timerfd code wrongly changed the priority of the signal
          fd watcher, which is usually harmless unless signal fds are
          also used (found via cpan tester service).
        - the documentation wrongly claimed that user may modify fd and events
          members in io watchers when the watcher was stopped
          (found by b_jonas).
        - new ev_io_modify mutator which changes only the events member,
          which can be faster. also added ev::io::set (int events) method
          to ev++.h.
        - officially allow a zero events mask for io watchers. this should
          work with older libev versions as well but was not officially
          allowed before.
        - do not wake up every minute when timerfd is used to detect timejumps.
        - do not wake up every minute when periodics are disabled and we have
          a monotonic clock.
        - support a lot more "uncommon" compile time configurations,
          such as ev_embed enabled but ev_timer disabled.
        - use a start/stop wrapper class to reduce code duplication in
          ev++.h and make it needlessly more c++-y.
        - the linux aio backend is no longer compiled in by default.
        - update to libecb version 0x00010008.
   2019-12-31 13:28:23 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
libev: update to 4.31.

4.31 Fri Dec 20 21:58:29 CET 2019
	- handle backends with minimum wait time a bit better by not
          waiting in the presence of already-expired timers
          (behaviour reported by Felipe Gasper).
        - new feature: use timerfd to detect timejumps quickly,
          can be disabled with the new EVFLAG_NOTIMERFD loop flag.
        - document EV_USE_SIGNALFD feature macro.

4.30 (EV only)
	- change non-autoconf test for __kernel_rwf_t by testing
          LINUX_VERSION_CODE, the most direct test I could find.
        - fix a bug in the io_uring backend that polled the wrong
          backend fd, causing it to not work in many cases.

4.29 (EV only)
	- add io uring autoconf and non-autoconf detection.
        - disable io_uring when some header files are too old.

4.28 (EV only)
	- linuxaio backend resulted in random memory corruption
          when loop is forked.
        - linuxaio backend might have tried to cancel an iocb
          multiple times (was unable to trigger this).
        - linuxaio backend now employs a generation counter to
          avoid handling spurious events from cancelled requests.
	- io_cancel can return EINTR, deal with it. also, assume
          io_submit also returns EINTR.
        - fix some other minor bugs in linuxaio backend.
        - ev_tstamp type can now be overriden by defining EV_TSTAMP_T.
        - cleanup: replace expect_true/false and noinline by their
          libecb counterparts.
        - move syscall infrastructure from ev_linuxaio.c to ev.c.
        - prepare io_uring integration.
        - tweak ev_floor.
        - epoll, poll, win32 Sleep and other places that use millisecond
          reslution now all try to round up times.
        - solaris port backend didn't compile.
        - abstract time constants into their macros, for more flexibility.
   2019-11-03 11:39:32 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (274) 
Log message:
devel: align variable assignments

pkglint -Wall -F --only aligned --only indent -r

No manual corrections.