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@@ -406,9 +406,18 @@ etc.). None of the active event watchers will be stopped in the normal sense, so e.g. C<ev_is_active> might still return true. It is your responsibility to either stop all watchers cleanly yoursef I<before> calling this function, or cope with the fact afterwards (which is usually -the easiest thing, youc na just ignore the watchers and/or C<free ()> them +the easiest thing, you can just ignore the watchers and/or C<free ()> them for example). +Not that certain global state, such as signal state, will not be freed by +this function, and related watchers (such as signal and child watchers) +would need to be stopped manually. + +In general it is not advisable to call this function except in the +rare occasion where you really need to free e.g. the signal handling +pipe fds. If you need dynamically allocated loops it is better to use +C<ev_loop_new> and C<ev_loop_destroy>). + =item ev_loop_destroy (loop) Like C<ev_default_destroy>, but destroys an event loop created by an |