--- libev/ev.pod 2007/11/12 08:03:31 1.3 +++ libev/ev.pod 2007/11/12 08:11:01 1.4 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ 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 -these event sources and provide your program events. +these event sources and provide your program with events. To do this, it must take more or less complete control over your process (or thread) by executing the I handler, and will then @@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ must not touch the values stored in it. Most specifically you must never reinitialise it or call its set method. -You cna check wether an event is active by calling the C macro. To see wether an event is outstanding (but the +You cna check whether an event is active by calling the C macro. To see whether an event is outstanding (but the callback for it has not been called yet) you cna use the C macro. @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ =head2 struct ev_io - is my file descriptor readable or writable -I/O watchers check wether a file descriptor is readable or writable +I/O watchers check whether a file descriptor is readable or writable in each iteration of the event loop (This behaviour is called level-triggering because you keep receiving events as long as the condition persists. Remember you cna stop the watcher if you don't want to