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Marc Alexander Lehmann 14 years ago
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Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
TODO: ev_walk
TODO: ev_stop_all docs
TODO: priority/idle docs
TODO: fix signal handling(?) under win32
3.54
- multiple timers becoming ready within an event loop iteration

@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ This function is rarely useful, but when some event callback runs for a
very long time without entering the event loop, updating libev's idea of
the current time is a good idea.
See also "The special problem of time updates" in the C<ev_timer> section.
See also L<The special problem of time updates> in the C<ev_timer> section.
=item ev_suspend (loop)
@ -2710,6 +2710,39 @@ and only in the child after the fork. If whoever good citizen calling
C<ev_default_fork> cheats and calls it in the wrong process, the fork
handlers will be invoked, too, of course.
=head3 The special problem of life after fork - how is it possible?
Most uses of C<fork()> consist of forking, then some simple calls to ste
up/change the process environment, followed by a call to C<exec()>. This
sequence should be handled by libev without any problems.
This changes when the application actually wants to do event handling
in the child, or both parent in child, in effect "continuing" after the
fork.
The default mode of operation (for libev, with application help to detect
forks) is to duplicate all the state in the child, as would be expected
when I<either> the parent I<or> the child process continues.
When both processes want to continue using libev, then this is usually the
wrong result. In that case, usually one process (typically the parent) is
supposed to continue with all watchers in place as before, while the other
process typically wants to start fresh, i.e. without any active watchers.
The cleanest and most efficient way to achieve that with libev is to
simply create a new event loop, which of course will be "empty", and
use that for new watchers. This has the advantage of not touching more
memory than necessary, and thus avoiding the copy-on-write, and the
disadvantage of having to use multiple event loops (which do not support
signal watchers).
When this is not possible, or you want to use the default loop for
other reasons, then in the process that wants to start "fresh", call
C<ev_default_destroy ()> followed by C<ev_default_loop (...)>. Destroying
the default loop will "orphan" (not stop) all registered watchers, so you
have to be careful not to execute code that modifies those watchers. Note
also that in that case, you have to re-register any signal watchers.
=head3 Watcher-Specific Functions and Data Members
=over 4

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