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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.16)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.20)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:
.\" ========================================================================
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "LIBEV 3"
-.TH LIBEV 3 "2013-02-28" "libev-4.11" "libev - high performance full featured event loop"
+.TH LIBEV 3 "2013-06-07" "libev-4.15" "libev - high performance full featured event loop"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -516,8 +516,10 @@ If this flag bit is or'ed into the flag value (or the program runs setuid
or setgid) then libev will \fInot\fR look at the environment variable
\&\f(CW\*(C`LIBEV_FLAGS\*(C'\fR. Otherwise (the default), this environment variable will
override the flags completely if it is found in the environment. This is
-useful to try out specific backends to test their performance, or to work
-around bugs.
+useful to try out specific backends to test their performance, to work
+around bugs, or to make libev threadsafe (accessing environment variables
+cannot be done in a threadsafe way, but usually it works if no other
+thread modifies them).
.ie n .IP """EVFLAG_FORKCHECK""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWEVFLAG_FORKCHECK\fR" 4
.IX Item "EVFLAG_FORKCHECK"