--- libev/ev.pod	2007/11/12 09:06:09	1.20
+++ libev/ev.pod	2007/11/13 03:11:57	1.26
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@
 
 =item ev_tstamp ev_time ()
 
-Returns the current time as libev would use it.
+Returns the current time as libev would use it. Please note that the
+C<ev_now> function is usually faster and also often returns the timestamp
+you actually want to know.
 
 =item int ev_version_major ()
 
@@ -243,7 +245,7 @@
 
 Can be used to make a call to C<ev_loop> return early (but only after it
 has processed all outstanding events). The C<how> argument must be either
-C<EVUNLOOP_ONCE>, which will make the innermost C<ev_loop> call return, or
+C<EVUNLOOP_ONE>, which will make the innermost C<ev_loop> call return, or
 C<EVUNLOOP_ALL>, which will make all nested C<ev_loop> calls return.
 
 =item ev_ref (loop)
@@ -419,7 +421,7 @@
 condition persists. Remember you can stop the watcher if you don't want to
 act on the event and neither want to receive future events).
 
-In general you can register as many read and/or write event watchers oer
+In general you can register as many read and/or write event watchers per
 fd as you want (as long as you don't confuse yourself). Setting all file
 descriptors to non-blocking mode is also usually a good idea (but not
 required if you know what you are doing).
@@ -427,7 +429,8 @@
 You have to be careful with dup'ed file descriptors, though. Some backends
 (the linux epoll backend is a notable example) cannot handle dup'ed file
 descriptors correctly if you register interest in two or more fds pointing
-to the same file/socket etc. description.
+to the same underlying file/socket etc. description (that is, they share
+the same underlying "file open").
 
 If you must do this, then force the use of a known-to-be-good backend
 (at the time of this writing, this includes only EVMETHOD_SELECT and
@@ -451,7 +454,7 @@
 given time, and optionally repeating in regular intervals after that.
 
 The timers are based on real time, that is, if you register an event that
-times out after an hour and youreset your system clock to last years
+times out after an hour and you reset your system clock to last years
 time, it will still time out after (roughly) and hour. "Roughly" because
 detecting time jumps is hard, and soem inaccuracies are unavoidable (the
 monotonic clock option helps a lot here).
@@ -460,7 +463,7 @@
 time. This is usually the right thing as this timestamp refers to the time
 of the event triggering whatever timeout you are modifying/starting.  If
 you suspect event processing to be delayed and you *need* to base the timeout
-ion the current time, use something like this to adjust for this:
+on the current time, use something like this to adjust for this:
 
    ev_timer_set (&timer, after + ev_now () - ev_time (), 0.);
 
@@ -478,7 +481,7 @@
 The timer itself will do a best-effort at avoiding drift, that is, if you
 configure a timer to trigger every 10 seconds, then it will trigger at
 exactly 10 second intervals. If, however, your program cannot keep up with
-the timer (ecause it takes longer than those 10 seconds to do stuff) the
+the timer (because it takes longer than those 10 seconds to do stuff) the
 timer will not fire more than once per event loop iteration.
 
 =item ev_timer_again (loop)
@@ -727,7 +730,7 @@
 This function combines a simple timer and an I/O watcher, calls your
 callback on whichever event happens first and automatically stop both
 watchers. This is useful if you want to wait for a single event on an fd
-or timeout without havign to allocate/configure/start/stop/free one or
+or timeout without having to allocate/configure/start/stop/free one or
 more watchers yourself.
 
 If C<fd> is less than 0, then no I/O watcher will be started and events
@@ -740,7 +743,7 @@
 dubious value.
 
 The callback has the type C<void (*cb)(int revents, void *arg)> and gets
-passed an events set like normal event callbacks (with a combination of
+passed an C<revents> set like normal event callbacks (a combination of
 C<EV_ERROR>, C<EV_READ>, C<EV_WRITE> or C<EV_TIMEOUT>) and the C<arg>
 value passed to C<ev_once>:
 
@@ -773,7 +776,30 @@
 
 =head1 LIBEVENT EMULATION
 
-TBD.
+Libev offers a compatibility emulation layer for libevent. It cannot
+emulate the internals of libevent, so here are some usage hints:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * Use it by including <event.h>, as usual.
+
+=item * The following members are fully supported: ev_base, ev_callback,
+ev_arg, ev_fd, ev_res, ev_events.
+
+=item * Avoid using ev_flags and the EVLIST_*-macros, while it is
+maintained by libev, it does not work exactly the same way as in libevent (consider
+it a private API).
+
+=item * Priorities are not currently supported. Initialising priorities
+will fail and all watchers will have the same priority, even though there
+is an ev_pri field.
+
+=item * Other members are not supported.
+
+=item * The libev emulation is I<not> ABI compatible to libevent, you need
+to use the libev header file and library.
+
+=back
 
 =head1 C++ SUPPORT