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| -rw-r--r-- | ev.pod | 20 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1238,6 +1238,20 @@ watcher isn't pending it does nothing and returns C<0>. Sometimes it can be useful to "poll" a watcher instead of waiting for its callback to be invoked, which can be accomplished with this function. +=item ev_feed_event (struct ev_loop *, watcher *, int revents) + +Feeds the given event set into the event loop, as if the specified event +had happened for the specified watcher (which must be a pointer to an +initialised but not necessarily started event watcher). Obviously you must +not free the watcher as long as it has pending events. + +Stopping the watcher, letting libev invoke it, or calling +C<ev_clear_pending> will clear the pending event, even if the watcher was +not started in the first place. + +See also C<ev_feed_fd_event> and C<ev_feed_signal_event> for related +functions that do not need a watcher. + =back @@ -3137,12 +3151,6 @@ Example: wait up to ten seconds for data to appear on STDIN_FILENO. ev_once (STDIN_FILENO, EV_READ, 10., stdin_ready, 0); -=item ev_feed_event (struct ev_loop *, watcher *, int revents) - -Feeds the given event set into the event loop, as if the specified event -had happened for the specified watcher (which must be a pointer to an -initialised but not necessarily started event watcher). - =item ev_feed_fd_event (struct ev_loop *, int fd, int revents) Feed an event on the given fd, as if a file descriptor backend detected |