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| -rw-r--r-- | Changes | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ev.pod | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. -TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? -TODO: which supports signals and child events -TODO: pointer races -TODO: ev_default_destroy, ev_default_fork - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). @@ -4759,6 +4759,11 @@ assumes that the same (machine) code can be used to call any watcher callback: The watcher callbacks have different type signatures, but libev calls them using an C<ev_watcher *> internally. +=item pointer accesses must be thread-atomic + +Accessing a pointer value must be atomic, it must both be readable and +writable in one piece - this is the case on all current architectures. + =item C<sig_atomic_t volatile> must be thread-atomic as well The type C<sig_atomic_t volatile> (or whatever is defined as @@ -5006,5 +5011,6 @@ to be started (attached to an event loop) before they can receive events. =head1 AUTHOR -Marc Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>, with repeated corrections by Mikael Magnusson. +Marc Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>, with repeated corrections by Mikael +Magnusson and Emanuele Giaquinta. |