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| author | root <root> | 2007-11-12 19:20:05 +0000 |
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| committer | root <root> | 2007-11-12 19:20:05 +0000 |
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| parent | c3ca1bf75f7fe800530abcb744a67977b6dfcc56 (diff) | |
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" /> <meta name="inputfile" content="<standard input>" /> <meta name="outputfile" content="<standard output>" /> - <meta name="created" content="Mon Nov 12 19:49:15 2007" /> + <meta name="created" content="Mon Nov 12 20:19:59 2007" /> <meta name="generator" content="Pod::Xhtml 1.57" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://res.tst.eu/pod.css"/></head> <body> @@ -451,8 +451,8 @@ required if you know what you are doing).</p> <p>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 (that is, they share the same -underlying "file open").</p> +to the same underlying file/socket etc. description (that is, they share +the same underlying "file open").</p> <p>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 EVMETHOD_POLL).</p> @@ -765,7 +765,22 @@ the given events it.</p> </div> <h1 id="LIBEVENT_EMULATION">LIBEVENT EMULATION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p> <div id="LIBEVENT_EMULATION_CONTENT"> -<p>TBD.</p> +<p>Libev offers a compatibility emulation layer for libevent. It cannot +emulate the internals of libevent, so here are some usage hints:</p> +<dl> + <dt>* Use it by including <event.h>, as usual.</dt> + <dt>* The following members are fully supported: ev_base, ev_callback, +ev_arg, ev_fd, ev_res, ev_events.</dt> + <dt>* Avoid using ev_flags and the EVLIST_*-macros, while it is +maintained by libev, it does not work exactly the same way as in libevent (consider +it a private API).</dt> + <dt>* Priorities are not currently supported. Initialising priorities +will fail and all watchers will have the same priority, even though there +is an ev_pri field.</dt> + <dt>* Other members are not supported.</dt> + <dt>* The libev emulation is <i>not</i> ABI compatible to libevent, you need +to use the libev header file and library.</dt> +</dl> </div> <h1 id="C_SUPPORT">C++ SUPPORT</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p> |