[ANN] sleepy_penguin 3.5.0 - Linux I/O events (and more) for Ruby

[ANN] sleepy_penguin 3.5.0 - Linux I/O events (and more) for Ruby

[Eric Wong]

sleepy_penguin provides access to newer, Linux-only system calls to wait
on events from traditionally non-I/O sources.  Bindings to the eventfd,
timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided.  Experimental support
for kqueue on FreeBSD (and likely OpenBSD/NetBSD) is also provided.

* homepage: https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/
* git clone git://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin.git
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Changes:

    sleepy_penguin 3.5.0

    Most notably, kevent and epoll_wait wrappers are now
    nestable, so you can write your own event loops inside
    somebody elses event loop (not that it's a good idea,
    but hey, that's reality, sometimes).

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin/Kqueue.html#method-i-kevent
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin/Epoll.html#method-i-wait

    For Linux users, there is now copy_file_range(2) support
    for copying regular files:

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#method-c-copy_file_range

    There is also a new sendfile wrapper which emulates Linux
    sendfile behavior regardless of platform.  It will use the
    native sendfile(2) syscall on FreeBSD and Linux, at least.

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#method-c-linux_sendfile

    Wrappers for the splice(2) and tee(2) syscalls also exist for
    Linux users (vmsplice(2) is omitted):

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#method-c-splice
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#method-c-tee

    Along with some related constants:

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#F_GETPIPE_SZ
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#F_SETPIPE_SZ
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#F_MORE
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#F_MOVE
      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin.html#F_NONBLOCK

    In other words, this release merges the useful parts of the old
    "io_splice" RubyGem: https://bogomips.org/ruby_io_splice/

    Linux 4.5+ epoll users also get EPOLLEXCLUSIVE along existing
    constants:

      https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/SleepyPenguin/Epoll.html#EXCLUSIVE

    Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 support are both gone, Ruby 2.0.0+ is required
    for keyword args, now(*).

    31 changes since 3.4.1:

          README: fix wording: are => is
          TODO: add memfd item
          epoll: allow :CLOEXEC instead of the long constant
          note the epoll/io.rb file is only for Ruby 1.8
          support the splice(2) and tee(2) syscalls
          implement copy_file_range support for Linux 4.5+
          doc: various URL updates (https)
          unify rb_gc() handling for out-of-FD conditions
          splice: clarification regarding tee() flags
          pkg.mk: various updates from other projects
          copy_file_range: use correct syscall numbers on x86/x86-64
          new API for splice and tee
          doc: remove references to IO#pipe_size accessor
          remove PIPE_BUF constant definition
          copy_file_range: move wrapper to Ruby for keyword arg handling
          gemspec: use SPDX-compatible license specifier
          implement linux_sendfile support
          portability fixes for systems w/o splice, copy_file_range
          tests: switch to test-unit
          free buffer if pthread_setspecific fails
          allow nestable TLS buffers within the same thread
          drop unused Ruby 1.8 support code
          epoll: add newline to Kernel#warn messages for atomicity
          favor require_relative over require
          epoll: add EPOLLEXCLUSIVE constant and documentation
          kqueue: remove IO#autoclose= and 1.8-related checks
          sp_copy: remove dummy 1.8 code for non-native threaded Ruby
          build: remove build-time olddoc dependency
          copy_file_range: add documentation
          doc: tests and examples for changing pipe size in Linux
          doc: avoid incorrect links to Epoll::IO

(*) Even ruby 2.1 is unsupported by ruby-core upstream;
    but I could be prodded to re-add 1.9.3 support if
    somebody really wants it...

[ANN] sleepy_penguin 3.5.1 - Linux I/O events (and more) for Ruby

[Eric Wong]

sleepy_penguin provides access to newer, Linux-only system calls to wait
on events from traditionally non-I/O sources.  Bindings to the eventfd,
timerfd, inotify, and epoll interfaces are provided.  Experimental support
for kqueue on FreeBSD (and likely OpenBSD/NetBSD) is also provided.

* homepage: https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/
* git clone https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin.git
* Atom feed: https://bogomips.org/sleepy_penguin/NEWS.atom.xml
* mailing list: sleepy-penguin@bogomips.org
* mail archives: https://bogomips.org/sleepy-penguin/
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	https://bogomips.org/sleepy-penguin/new.atom

Changes:

    sleepy_penguin 3.5.1

    This release fixes some minor things for kqueue and clang
    users.  Not much going on... *yawn*

    6 changes since v3.5.0 (2017-03-22):

          kqueue: ensure close-on-exec flag is set
          kqueue: modernize Struct usage for Ruby 2.5.0dev
          fix 64-to-32-bit truncation warning
          kqueue: get rid of unused variable warnings
          epoll: avoid reduce block capture and ivar requests
          doc: use HTTPS URLS when possible