--- libev/ev.pod 2007/12/24 10:39:21 1.108 +++ libev/ev.pod 2007/12/24 13:19:12 1.109 @@ -985,12 +985,6 @@ descriptors to non-blocking mode is also usually a good idea (but not required if you know what you are doing). -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 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 C and C). @@ -1035,8 +1029,8 @@ Some backends (e.g. epoll), cannot register events for file descriptors, but only events for the underlying file descriptions. That means when you -have C'ed file descriptors and register events for them, only one -file descriptor might actually receive events. +have C'ed file descriptors or weirder constellations, and register +events for them, only one file descriptor might actually receive events. There is no workaround possible except not registering events for potentially C'ed file descriptors, or to resort to