From f32daa3440fff8b6f98d8843a70101ff5b40145c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:30:15 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev.pod | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'ev.pod') diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index 79e49d8..5707b51 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -594,11 +594,15 @@ specification in all tests and is fully embeddable, which is a rare feat among the OS-specific backends (I vastly prefer correctness over speed hacks). -On the negative side, the interface is I, with the event polling +On the negative side, the interface is I - so bizarre that +even sun itself gets it wrong in their code examples: The event polling function sometimes returning events to the caller even though an error occured, but with no indication whether it has done so or not (yes, it's -even documented that way) - deadly for edge-triggered interfaces, but -fortunately libev seems to be able to work around it. +even documented that way) - deadly for edge-triggered interfaces where +you absolutely have to know whether an event occured or not because you +have to re-arm the watcher. + +Fortunately libev seems to be able to work around these idiocies. This backend maps C and C in the same way as C. -- cgit v1.2.3