+ </dd>
+ <dt><code>EVFLAG_FORKCHECK</code></dt>
+ <dd>
+ <p>Instead of calling <code>ev_default_fork</code> or <code>ev_loop_fork</code> manually after
+a fork, you can also make libev check for a fork in each iteration by
+enabling this flag.</p>
+ <p>This works by calling <code>getpid ()</code> on every iteration of the loop,
+and thus this might slow down your event loop if you do a lot of loop
+iterations and little real work, but is usually not noticable (on my
+Linux system for example, <code>getpid</code> is actually a simple 5-insn sequence
+without a syscall and thus <i>very</i> fast, but my Linux system also has
+<code>pthread_atfork</code> which is even faster).</p>
+ <p>The big advantage of this flag is that you can forget about fork (and
+forget about forgetting to tell libev about forking) when you use this
+flag.</p>
+ <p>This flag setting cannot be overriden or specified in the <code>LIBEV_FLAGS</code>
+environment variable.</p>