From 8d0f4d263d9a5601bb7d419e7db00970e288cb7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root
This will act as if the timer timed out and restart it again if it is repeating. The exact semantics are:
-If the timer is started but nonrepeating, stop it.
-If the timer is repeating, either start it if necessary (with the repeat -value), or reset the running timer to the repeat value.
+If the timer is pending, its pending status is cleared.
+If the timer is started but nonrepeating, stop it (as if it timed out).
+If the timer is repeating, either start it if necessary (with the
+repeat
value), or reset the running timer to the repeat
value.
This sounds a bit complicated, but here is a useful and typical
-example: Imagine you have a tcp connection and you want a so-called
-idle timeout, that is, you want to be called when there have been,
-say, 60 seconds of inactivity on the socket. The easiest way to do
-this is to configure an ev_timer
with after
=repeat
=60
and calling
+example: Imagine you have a tcp connection and you want a so-called idle
+timeout, that is, you want to be called when there have been, say, 60
+seconds of inactivity on the socket. The easiest way to do this is to
+configure an ev_timer
with a repeat
value of 60
and then call
ev_timer_again
each time you successfully read or write some data. If
you go into an idle state where you do not expect data to travel on the
-socket, you can stop the timer, and again will automatically restart it if
-need be.
You can also ignore the after
value and ev_timer_start
altogether
-and only ever use the repeat
value:
ev_timer_stop
the timer, and ev_timer_again
will
+automatically restart it if need be.
+ That means you can ignore the after
value and ev_timer_start
+altogether and only ever use the repeat
value and ev_timer_again
:
ev_timer_init (timer, callback, 0., 5.);
ev_timer_again (loop, timer);
...
@@ -978,8 +979,8 @@ and only ever use the repeat
value:
ev_timer_again (loop, timer);
- This is more efficient then stopping/starting the timer eahc time you want -to modify its timeout value.
+This is more slightly efficient then stopping/starting the timer each time +you want to modify its timeout value.