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authorroot <root>2009-04-21 14:14:19 +0000
committerroot <root>2009-04-21 14:14:19 +0000
commitb944ec26eb10a7944b614be49254d4d740a17de9 (patch)
tree0c866b91ab9a630044c2673d52edb09f1d098459
parentb4808abaa51825ed62e37a91744f647cfbbc1a1c (diff)
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@@ -1334,7 +1334,9 @@ required if you know what you are doing).
If you cannot use non-blocking mode, then force the use of a
known-to-be-good backend (at the time of this writing, this includes only
-C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> and C<EVBACKEND_POLL>).
+C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> and C<EVBACKEND_POLL>). The same applies to file
+descriptors for which non-blocking operation makes no sense (such as
+files) - libev doesn't guarentee any specific behaviour in that case.
Another thing you have to watch out for is that it is quite easy to
receive "spurious" readiness notifications, that is your callback might