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| 274 | a fork, you can also make libev check for a fork in each iteration by |
274 | a fork, you can also make libev check for a fork in each iteration by |
| 275 | enabling this flag. |
275 | enabling this flag. |
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276 | |
| 277 | This works by calling C<getpid ()> on every iteration of the loop, |
277 | This works by calling C<getpid ()> on every iteration of the loop, |
| 278 | and thus this might slow down your event loop if you do a lot of loop |
278 | and thus this might slow down your event loop if you do a lot of loop |
| 279 | iterations and little real work, but is usually not noticable (on my |
279 | iterations and little real work, but is usually not noticeable (on my |
| 280 | Linux system for example, C<getpid> is actually a simple 5-insn sequence |
280 | Linux system for example, C<getpid> is actually a simple 5-insn sequence |
| 281 | without a syscall and thus I<very> fast, but my Linux system also has |
281 | without a syscall and thus I<very> fast, but my Linux system also has |
| 282 | C<pthread_atfork> which is even faster). |
282 | C<pthread_atfork> which is even faster). |
| 283 | |
283 | |
| 284 | The big advantage of this flag is that you can forget about fork (and |
284 | The big advantage of this flag is that you can forget about fork (and |
