--- libev/ev.pod 2012/02/13 01:52:14 1.397 +++ libev/ev.pod 2012/04/02 18:39:54 1.398 @@ -569,9 +569,9 @@ kernel is more efficient (which says nothing about its actual speed, of course). While stopping, setting and starting an I/O watcher does never cause an extra system call as with C, it still adds up to -two event changes per incident. Support for C is very bad (but -sane, unlike epoll) and it drops fds silently in similarly hard-to-detect -cases +two event changes per incident. Support for C is very bad (you +might have to leak fd's on fork, but it's more sane than epoll) and it +drops fds silently in similarly hard-to-detect cases This backend usually performs well under most conditions.