From 84a992d7ab335ea0b95d091069fa1a49945b9dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:57:12 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev.pod | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'ev.pod') diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index 73c4d34..e913883 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -398,8 +398,10 @@ If this flag bit is or'ed into the flag value (or the program runs setuid or setgid) then libev will I look at the environment variable C. 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). =item C -- cgit v1.2.3