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<meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" />
<meta name="inputfile" content="&lt;standard input&gt;" />
<meta name="outputfile" content="&lt;standard output&gt;" />
- <meta name="created" content="Mon Nov 12 08:58:02 2007" />
+ <meta name="created" content="Mon Nov 12 09:03:30 2007" />
<meta name="generator" content="Pod::Xhtml 1.57" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://res.tst.eu/pod.css"/></head>
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<li><a href="#WATCHER_TYPES">WATCHER TYPES</a>
<ul><li><a href="#struct_ev_io_is_my_file_descriptor_r">struct ev_io - is my file descriptor readable or writable</a></li>
<li><a href="#struct_ev_timer_relative_and_optiona">struct ev_timer - relative and optionally recurring timeouts</a></li>
-<li><a href="#ev_periodic">ev_periodic</a></li>
+<li><a href="#ev_periodic_to_cron_or_not_to_cron_i">ev_periodic - to cron or not to cron it</a></li>
<li><a href="#ev_signal_signal_me_when_a_signal_ge">ev_signal - signal me when a signal gets signalled</a></li>
<li><a href="#ev_child_wait_for_pid_status_changes">ev_child - wait for pid status changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#ev_idle_when_you_ve_got_nothing_bett">ev_idle - when you've got nothing better to do</a></li>
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ will not have this argument.</p>
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<h1 id="TIME_AND_OTHER_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS">TIME AND OTHER GLOBAL FUNCTIONS</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
<div id="TIME_AND_OTHER_GLOBAL_FUNCTIONS_CONT">
-<p>Libev represents time as a single floating point number. This type is
+<p>Libev represents time as a single floating point number, representing the
+(fractional) number of seconds since the (POSIX) epoch (somewhere near
+the beginning of 1970, details are complicated, don't ask). This type is
called <code>ev_tstamp</code>, which is what you should use too. It usually aliases
to the double type in C.</p>
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@@ -480,8 +482,8 @@ the timer, and again will automatically restart it if need be.</p>
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-<h2 id="ev_periodic">ev_periodic</h2>
-<div id="ev_periodic_CONTENT">
+<h2 id="ev_periodic_to_cron_or_not_to_cron_i">ev_periodic - to cron or not to cron it</h2>
+<div id="ev_periodic_to_cron_or_not_to_cron_i-2">
<p>Periodic watchers are also timers of a kind, but they are very versatile
(and unfortunately a bit complex).</p>
<p>Unlike ev_timer's, they are not based on real time (or relative time)