Problem: registering two uv_fs_event_t watchers for the same path, then closing
them, caused a segmentation fault. While active, the watchers didn't work right
either, only one would receive events.
Cause: each watcher has a wd (watch descriptor) that's used as its key in a
binary tree. When you call inotify_watch_add() twice with the same path, the
second call doesn't return a new wd - it returns the existing one. That in turn
resulted in the first handle getting ousted from the binary tree, leaving
dangling pointers.
This commit addresses that by storing the watchers in a queue and storing the
queue in the binary tree instead of storing the watchers directly in the tree.
Fixesjoyent/node#3789.
* replace libev backed timers with a pure libuv implementation
* gut ev_run() and make it take a timeout instead of flags
Incidentally speeds up the loop_count_timed benchmark by about 100%.
The new idle watcher was temporarily disabled in 073a48d due to some semantic
incompatibilities with the previous implementation. This commit resolves those
issues and reactivates the new implementation.
One outstanding bug is that idle watchers can run in a different order
(relative to other handle types) than the old implementation, e.g. (timer, idle)
instead of the expected (idle, timer). This will be fixed in an upcoming commit.
This commit changes how the event loop determines if it needs to stay alive.
Previously, an internal counter was increased whenever a handle got created
and decreased again when the handle was closed.
While conceptually simple, it turned out hard to work with: you often want
to keep the event loop alive only if the handle is actually doing something.
Stopped or inactive handles were a frequent source of hanging event loops.
That's why this commit changes the reference counting scheme to a model where
a handle only references the event loop when it's active. 'Active' means
different things for different handle types, e.g.:
* timers: ticking
* sockets: reading, writing or listening
* processes: always active (for now, subject to change)
* idle, check, prepare: only active when started
This commit also changes how the uv_ref() and uv_unref() functions work: they
now operate on the level of individual handles, not the whole event loop.
The Windows implementation was done by Bert Belder.
Instead of using one port per watch, use one port for all the watches.
This is a cherry-pick of commit 7326962 from v0.6 into master.
Conflicts:
include/uv-private/uv-unix.h
src/unix/core.c
src/unix/sunos.c
