1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ev.c b/ev.c
index 8a92fb0..2f46f79 100644
--- a/ev.c
+++ b/ev.c
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ ev_embed_start (EV_P_ ev_embed *w)
   {
     struct ev_loop *loop = w->other;
     assert (("loop to be embedded is not embeddable", backend & ev_embeddable_backends ()));
-    ev_io_init (&w->io, embed_io_cb, backend_fd, EV_WRITE);
+    ev_io_init (&w->io, embed_io_cb, backend_fd, EV_READ);
   }
 
   ev_set_priority (&w->io, ev_priority (w));