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417i.e. keep at least one watcher active per fd at all times. Stopping and 417i.e. keep at least one watcher active per fd at all times. Stopping and
418starting a watcher (without re-setting it) also usually doesn't cause 418starting a watcher (without re-setting it) also usually doesn't cause
419extra overhead. A fork can both result in spurious notifications as well 419extra overhead. A fork can both result in spurious notifications as well
420as in libev having to destroy and recreate the epoll object, which can 420as in libev having to destroy and recreate the epoll object, which can
421take considerable time and thus should be avoided. 421take considerable time and thus should be avoided.
422
423All this means that, in practice, C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> can be as fast or
424faster than epoll for maybe up to a hundred file descriptors, depending on
425the usage. So sad.
422 426
423While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in 427While nominally embeddable in other event loops, this feature is broken in
424all kernel versions tested so far. 428all kernel versions tested so far.
425 429
426This backend maps C<EV_READ> and C<EV_WRITE> in the same way as 430This backend maps C<EV_READ> and C<EV_WRITE> in the same way as
1415 else 1419 else
1416 { 1420 {
1417 // callback was invoked, but there was some activity, re-arm 1421 // callback was invoked, but there was some activity, re-arm
1418 // the watcher to fire in last_activity + 60, which is 1422 // the watcher to fire in last_activity + 60, which is
1419 // guaranteed to be in the future, so "again" is positive: 1423 // guaranteed to be in the future, so "again" is positive:
1420 w->again = timeout - now; 1424 w->repeat = timeout - now;
1421 ev_timer_again (EV_A_ w); 1425 ev_timer_again (EV_A_ w);
1422 } 1426 }
1423 } 1427 }
1424 1428
1425To summarise the callback: first calculate the real timeout (defined 1429To summarise the callback: first calculate the real timeout (defined

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