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authorroot <root>2007-11-12 18:36:42 +0000
committerroot <root>2007-11-12 18:36:42 +0000
commita04347e5cbe92a5f99231dcdb3d7d0f474bad401 (patch)
tree302ed656458c34aa165307a563e6861e27b43839
parent42d2222c89438fb21dc75622c71c99e2eb2f195f (diff)
workaround for solaris 9's lack of standard C language header files
-rw-r--r--ev.pod11
-rw-r--r--event_compat.h2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod
index ce79238..c162b21 100644
--- a/ev.pod
+++ b/ev.pod
@@ -427,7 +427,8 @@ required if you know what you are doing).
You have to be careful with dup'ed file descriptors, though. Some backends
(the linux epoll backend is a notable example) cannot handle dup'ed file
descriptors correctly if you register interest in two or more fds pointing
-to the same file/socket etc. description.
+to the same file/socket etc. description (that is, they share the same
+underlying "file open").
If you must do this, then force the use of a known-to-be-good backend
(at the time of this writing, this includes only EVMETHOD_SELECT and
@@ -451,7 +452,7 @@ Timer watchers are simple relative timers that generate an event after a
given time, and optionally repeating in regular intervals after that.
The timers are based on real time, that is, if you register an event that
-times out after an hour and youreset your system clock to last years
+times out after an hour and you reset your system clock to last years
time, it will still time out after (roughly) and hour. "Roughly" because
detecting time jumps is hard, and soem inaccuracies are unavoidable (the
monotonic clock option helps a lot here).
@@ -460,7 +461,7 @@ The relative timeouts are calculated relative to the C<ev_now ()>
time. This is usually the right thing as this timestamp refers to the time
of the event triggering whatever timeout you are modifying/starting. If
you suspect event processing to be delayed and you *need* to base the timeout
-ion the current time, use something like this to adjust for this:
+on the current time, use something like this to adjust for this:
ev_timer_set (&timer, after + ev_now () - ev_time (), 0.);
@@ -478,7 +479,7 @@ later, again, and again, until stopped manually.
The timer itself will do a best-effort at avoiding drift, that is, if you
configure a timer to trigger every 10 seconds, then it will trigger at
exactly 10 second intervals. If, however, your program cannot keep up with
-the timer (ecause it takes longer than those 10 seconds to do stuff) the
+the timer (because it takes longer than those 10 seconds to do stuff) the
timer will not fire more than once per event loop iteration.
=item ev_timer_again (loop)
@@ -727,7 +728,7 @@ There are some other functions of possible interest. Described. Here. Now.
This function combines a simple timer and an I/O watcher, calls your
callback on whichever event happens first and automatically stop both
watchers. This is useful if you want to wait for a single event on an fd
-or timeout without havign to allocate/configure/start/stop/free one or
+or timeout without having to allocate/configure/start/stop/free one or
more watchers yourself.
If C<fd> is less than 0, then no I/O watcher will be started and events
diff --git a/event_compat.h b/event_compat.h
index 84ca5bf..38fd3dc 100644
--- a/event_compat.h
+++ b/event_compat.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ extern "C" {
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
#include <sys/time.h>
-#include <stdint.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#ifdef WIN32