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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="description" content="Pod documentation for libev" /> <meta name="inputfile" content="<standard input>" /> <meta name="outputfile" content="<standard output>" /> - <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> <body> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ <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> </div> <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> <dl> @@ -480,8 +482,8 @@ the timer, and again will automatically restart it if need be.</p> </dl> </div> -<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) |