Adds initial libuv build/platform support for AIX. Builds work using gcc or the
IBM XL C compiler using its gxlc wrapper. Platform support is added for
uv_hrtime, uv_exepath, uv_get_free_memory, uv_get_total_memory, uv_loadavg,
uv_uptime, uv_cpu_info, uv_interface_addresses.
Newer versions of gyp do not support files with the same basenames (example:
core.c and linux/core.c).
The nominal reason is consistency across build systems. Apparently, msbuild
doesn't support it either.
Somewhere, someplace, baby Jesus cries sad little tears...
Fixes#464.
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.
Previously, a new inotify fd was created for each watcher, making it quite easy
to run into the system-wide fs.inotify.max_user_instances limit (usually 128).
Fixes#300.
Allows user to override compiler and archiver through the CC and AR environment
variables. Note that this already worked as expected with `make CC=clang`.
Read/write locks are emulated with critical sections on Windows XP and Vista
because those platforms don't have a (complete) native read/write lock API.
