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 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ details of the event, and then hand it over to libev by starting the watcher.

FEATURES

Libev supports select, poll, the linux-specific epoll, the bsd-specific kqueue and the solaris-specific event port mechanisms @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ file watchers (ev_stat) and even limited support for fork events for example).

CONVENTIONS

Libev is very configurable. In this manual the default configuration will be described, which supports multiple event loops. For more info about @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ loops, then all functions taking an initial argument of name loop (which is always of type struct ev_loop *) will not have this argument.

TIME REPRESENTATION

Libev represents time as a single floating point number, representing the (fractional) number of seconds since the (POSIX) epoch (somewhere near @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ to the double type in C, and when you need to do any calculations o it, you should treat it as such.

GLOBAL FUNCTIONS

These functions can be called anytime, even before initialising the library in any way.

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ requested operation, or, if the condition doesn't go away, do bad stuff

FUNCTIONS CONTROLLING THE EVENT LOOP

An event loop is described by a struct ev_loop *. The library knows two types of such loops, the default loop, which supports signals and child @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ running when nothing else is active.

ANATOMY OF A WATCHER

A watcher is a structure that you create and register to record your interest in some event. For instance, if you want to wait for STDIN to @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ have been omitted....

WATCHER TYPES

This section describes each watcher in detail, but will not repeat information given in the last section. Any initialisation/set macros, @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ believe me.

OTHER FUNCTIONS

There are some other functions of possible interest. Described. Here. Now.

@@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@ loop!).

LIBEVENT EMULATION

Libev offers a compatibility emulation layer for libevent. It cannot emulate the internals of libevent, so here are some usage hints:

@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ to use the libev header file and library.

C++ SUPPORT

Libev comes with some simplistic wrapper classes for C++ that mainly allow you to use some convinience methods to start/stop watchers and also change @@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ the constructor.

MACRO MAGIC

Libev can be compiled with a variety of options, the most fundemantal is EV_MULTIPLICITY. This option determines wether (most) functions and @@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ wether multiple loops are supported or not.

EMBEDDING

Libev can (and often is) directly embedded into host applications. Examples of applications that embed it include the Deliantra @@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ that everybody includes and which overrides some autoconf choices:

COMPLEXITIES

In this section the complexities of (many of) the algorithms used inside libev will be explained. For complexity discussions about backends see the @@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ documentation for ev_default_init.

NAME

NAME

SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS

EXAMPLE PROGRAM

EXAMPLE PROGRAM

DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION

FEATURES

FEATURES

CONVENTIONS

CONVENTIONS

TIME REPRESENTATION

TIME REPRESENTATION

GLOBAL FUNCTIONS

GLOBAL FUNCTIONS

FUNCTIONS CONTROLLING THE EVENT LOOP

FUNCTIONS CONTROLLING THE EVENT LOOP

ANATOMY OF A WATCHER

ANATOMY OF A WATCHER

WATCHER TYPES

WATCHER TYPES

OTHER FUNCTIONS

OTHER FUNCTIONS

LIBEVENT EMULATION

LIBEVENT EMULATION

C++ SUPPORT

C++ SUPPORT

MACRO MAGIC

MACRO MAGIC

EMBEDDING

EMBEDDING

COMPLEXITIES

COMPLEXITIES

AUTHOR

AUTHOR