libev - a high performance full-featured event loop written in C
#include <ev.h>
#include <ev.h> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
Libev is an event loop: you register interest in certain events (such as a file descriptor being readable or a timeout occuring), and it will manage @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ watcher.
Libev supports select, poll, the linux-specific epoll, the
bsd-specific kqueue and the solaris-specific event port mechanisms
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for example).
Libev is very configurable. In this manual the default configuration will
be described, which supports multiple event loops. For more info about
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(which is always of type struct ev_loop *) will not have this argument.
Libev represents time as a single floating point number, representing the (fractional) number of seconds since the (POSIX) epoch (somewhere near @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ it, you should treat it as such.
These functions can be called anytime, even before initialising the library in any way.
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@An event loop is described by a struct ev_loop *. The library knows two
types of such loops, the default loop, which supports signals and child
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A watcher is a structure that you create and register to record your interest in some event. For instance, if you want to wait for STDIN to @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@
This section describes each watcher in detail, but will not repeat information given in the last section. Any initialisation/set macros, @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@
There are some other functions of possible interest. Described. Here. Now.
Libev offers a compatibility emulation layer for libevent. It cannot emulate the internals of libevent, so here are some usage hints:
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@Libev comes with some simplistic wrapper classes for C++ that mainly allow you to use some convinience methods to start/stop watchers and also change @@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@
Libev can be compiled with a variety of options, the most fundemantal is
EV_MULTIPLICITY. This option determines wether (most) functions and
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Libev can (and often is) directly embedded into host applications. Examples of applications that embed it include the Deliantra @@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@
In this section the complexities of (many of) the algorithms used inside libev will be explained. For complexity discussions about backends see the @@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@
Marc Lehmann <libev@schmorp.de>.