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     Example 2: fire an event after 0.5 seconds, then roughly every second.
        my $w = AnyEvent->timer (after => 0.5, interval => 1, cb => sub {
           warn "timeout\n";
-       };
+       });
    TIMING ISSUES
     There are two ways to handle timers: based on real time (relative, "fire
     in 10 seconds") and based on wallclock time (absolute, "fire at 12
     o'clock").
     race-free signal handling in perl, requiring C libraries for this.
     AnyEvent will try to do its best, which means in some cases, signals
     will be delayed. The maximum time a signal might be delayed is 10
     seconds by default, but can be overriden via
     $ENV{PERL_ANYEVENT_MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY} or $AnyEvent::MAX_SIGNAL_LATENCY
-    - see the Ö<ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES> section for details.
+    - see the "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" section for details.
     All these problems can be avoided by installing the optional
     Async::Interrupt module, which works with most event loops. It will not
     work with inherently broken event loops such as Event or Event::Lib (and
     not with POE currently). For those, you just have to suffer the delays.
               };
            }
            $cv->end;
+           ...
+           my $results = $cv->recv;
         This code fragment supposedly pings a number of hosts and calls
         "send" after results for all then have have been gathered - in any
         order. To achieve this, the code issues a call to "begin" when it
         starts each ping request and calls "end" when it has received some
         result for it. Since "begin" and "end" only maintain a counter, the
         In list context, all parameters passed to "send" will be returned,
         in scalar context only the first one will be returned.
         Note that doing a blocking wait in a callback is not supported by
         any event loop, that is, recursive invocation of a blocking "->recv"
-        is not allowed, and the "recv" call will "croak" if such a condition
+        is not allowed and the "recv" call will "croak" if such a condition
-        is detected. This condition can be slightly loosened by using
+        is detected. This requirement can be dropped by relying on
-        Coro::AnyEvent, which allows you to do a blocking "->recv" from any
+        Coro::AnyEvent , which allows you to do a blocking "->recv" from any
-        thread that doesn't run the event loop itself.
+        thread that doesn't run the event loop itself. Coro::AnyEvent is
+        loaded automatically when Coro is used with AnyEvent, so code does
+        not need to do anything special to take advantage of that: any code
+        that would normally block your program because it calls "recv", be
+        executed in an "async" thread instead without blocking other
+        threads.
         Not all event models support a blocking wait - some die in that case
         (programs might want to do that to stay interactive), so *if you are
         using this from a module, never require a blocking wait*. Instead,
         let the caller decide whether the call will block or not (for
     modules come as part of AnyEvent, the others are available via CPAN (see
     <http://search.cpan.org/search?m=module&q=anyevent%3A%3A*> for a longer
     non-exhaustive list), and the list is heavily biased towards modules of
     the AnyEvent author himself :)
-    AnyEvent::Util
+    AnyEvent::Util (part of the AnyEvent distribution)
         Contains various utility functions that replace often-used blocking
         functions such as "inet_aton" with event/callback-based versions.
-    AnyEvent::Socket
+    AnyEvent::Socket (part of the AnyEvent distribution)
         Provides various utility functions for (internet protocol) sockets,
         addresses and name resolution. Also functions to create non-blocking
         tcp connections or tcp servers, with IPv6 and SRV record support and
         more.
-    AnyEvent::Handle
+    AnyEvent::Handle (part of the AnyEvent distribution)
         Provide read and write buffers, manages watchers for reads and
         writes, supports raw and formatted I/O, I/O queued and fully
         transparent and non-blocking SSL/TLS (via AnyEvent::TLS).
-    AnyEvent::DNS
+    AnyEvent::DNS (part of the AnyEvent distribution)
         Provides rich asynchronous DNS resolver capabilities.
     AnyEvent::HTTP, AnyEvent::IRC, AnyEvent::XMPP, AnyEvent::GPSD,
     AnyEvent::IGS, AnyEvent::FCP
         Implement event-based interfaces to the protocols of the same name
         (for the curious, IGS is the International Go Server and FCP is the
         Freenet Client Protocol).
-    AnyEvent::AIO
+    AnyEvent::AIO (part of the AnyEvent distribution)
         Truly asynchronous (as opposed to non-blocking) I/O, should be in
         the toolbox of every event programmer. AnyEvent::AIO transparently
         fuses IO::AIO and AnyEvent together, giving AnyEvent access to
         event-based file I/O, and much more.
     This ensures that child processes will not see the "AE_" variables.
     The following environment variables are currently known to AnyEvent:
     "PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE"
-        By default, AnyEvent will only log messages with loglevel 3
+        By default, AnyEvent will log messages with loglevel 4 ("error") or
-        ("critical") or higher (see AnyEvent::Log). You can set this
+        higher (see AnyEvent::Log). You can set this environment variable to
-        environment variable to a numerical loglevel to make AnyEvent more
+        a numerical loglevel to make AnyEvent more (or less) talkative.
-        (or less) talkative.
         If you want to do more than just set the global logging level you
         should have a look at "PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG", which allows much more
         complex specifications.
         When set to 0 ("off"), then no messages whatsoever will be logged
-        with the default logging settings.
+        with everything else at defaults.
-        When set to 5 or higher ("warn"), causes AnyEvent to warn about
+        When set to 5 or higher ("warn"), AnyEvent warns about unexpected
-        unexpected conditions, such as not being able to load the event
+        conditions, such as not being able to load the event model specified
-        model specified by "PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL", or a guard callback
+        by "PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL", or a guard callback throwing an exception
-        throwing an exception - this is the minimum recommended level.
+        - this is the minimum recommended level for use during development.
-        When set to 7 or higher (info), cause AnyEvent to report which event
+        When set to 7 or higher (info), AnyEvent reports which event model
-        model it chooses.
+        it chooses.
         When set to 8 or higher (debug), then AnyEvent will report extra
         information on which optional modules it loads and how it implements
         certain features.
         itself.
         Note that specifying this environment variable causes the
         AnyEvent::Log module to be loaded, while "PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE"
         does not, so only using the latter saves a few hundred kB of memory
-        until the first message is being logged.
+        unless a module explicitly needs the extra features of
+        AnyEvent::Log.
     "PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT"
         AnyEvent does not do much argument checking by default, as thorough
         argument checking is very costly. Setting this variable to a true
         value will cause AnyEvent to load "AnyEvent::Strict" and then to
         For example, to force the pure perl model (AnyEvent::Loop::Perl) you
         could start your program like this:
            PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL=Perl perl ...
+    "PERL_ANYEVENT_IO_MODEL"
+        The current file I/O model - see AnyEvent::IO for more info.
+        At the moment, only "Perl" (small, pure-perl, synchronous) and
+        "IOAIO" (truly asynchronous) are supported. The default is "IOAIO"
+        if AnyEvent::AIO can be loaded, otherwise it is "Perl".
     "PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS"
         Used by both AnyEvent::DNS and AnyEvent::Socket to determine
         preferences for IPv4 or IPv6. The default is unspecified (and might
         change, or be the result of auto probing).
         This module is part of perl since release 5.008. It will be used
         when the chosen event library does not come with a timing source of
         its own. The pure-perl event loop (AnyEvent::Loop) will additionally
         load it to try to use a monotonic clock for timing stability.
+    AnyEvent::AIO (and IO::AIO)
+        The default implementation of AnyEvent::IO is to do I/O
+        synchronously, stopping programs while they access the disk, which
+        is fine for a lot of programs.
+        Installing AnyEvent::AIO (and its IO::AIO dependency) makes it
+        switch to a true asynchronous implementation, so event processing
+        can continue even while waiting for disk I/O.
 FORK
     Most event libraries are not fork-safe. The ones who are usually are
     because they rely on inefficient but fork-safe "select" or "poll" calls
     - higher performance APIs such as BSD's kqueue or the dreaded Linux
     epoll are usually badly thought-out hacks that are incompatible with
     AnyEvent::Impl::IOAsync, Anyevent::Impl::Irssi, AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK.
     Non-blocking handles, pipes, stream sockets, TCP clients and servers:
     AnyEvent::Handle, AnyEvent::Socket, AnyEvent::TLS.
+    Asynchronous File I/O: AnyEvent::IO.
     Asynchronous DNS: AnyEvent::DNS.
     Thread support: Coro, Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV, Coro::Event.
     Nontrivial usage examples: AnyEvent::GPSD, AnyEvent::IRC,
     AnyEvent::HTTP.
 AUTHOR
        Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
-       http://home.schmorp.de/
+       http://anyevent.schmorp.de

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Revision 1.71 by root, Wed Aug 21 08:40:28 2013 UTC