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@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
 
 TODO: ev_walk
-TODO: signal handling per loop
-TODO: NSIG etc.
 TODO: NOSIGFD/NOEVTFD/NOINOTIFY?
-TODO: gotsig per-loop
 	- incompatible change: do not necessarily reset signal handler
           to SIG_DFL when a sighandler is stopped.
         - ev_default_destroy did not properly free or zero some members,

ev.pod

@@ -364,6 +364,21 @@ flag.
 This flag setting cannot be overridden or specified in the C<LIBEV_FLAGS>
 environment variable.
 
+=item C<EVFLAG_NOINOTIFY>
+
+When this flag is specified, then libev will not attempt to use the
+I<inotify> API for it's C<ev_stat> watchers. Apart from debugging and
+testing, this flag can be useful to conserve inotify file descriptors, as
+otherwise each loop using C<ev_stat> watchers consumes one inotify handle.
+
+=item C<EVFLAG_NOSIGNALFD>
+
+When this flag is specified, then libev will not attempt to use the
+I<signalfd> API for it's C<ev_signal> (and C<ev_child>) watchers. This is
+probably only useful to work around any bugs in libev. Consequently, this
+flag might go away once the signalfd functionality is considered stable,
+so it's useful mostly in environment variables and not in program code.
+
 =item C<EVBACKEND_SELECT>  (value 1, portable select backend)
 
 This is your standard select(2) backend. Not I<completely> standard, as
@@ -520,9 +535,10 @@ It is definitely not recommended to use this flag.
 
 =back
 
-If one or more of these are or'ed into the flags value, then only these
-backends will be tried (in the reverse order as listed here). If none are
-specified, all backends in C<ev_recommended_backends ()> will be tried.
+If one or more of the backend flags are or'ed into the flags value,
+then only these backends will be tried (in the reverse order as listed
+here). If none are specified, all backends in C<ev_recommended_backends
+()> will be tried.
 
 Example: This is the most typical usage.
 
@@ -2078,17 +2094,20 @@ signal one or more times. Even though signals are very asynchronous, libev
 will try it's best to deliver signals synchronously, i.e. as part of the
 normal event processing, like any other event.
 
-Note that only the default loop supports registering signal watchers
-currently.
+If you want signals to be delivered truly asynchronously, just use
+C<sigaction> as you would do without libev and forget about sharing
+the signal. You can even use C<ev_async> from a signal handler to
+synchronously wake up an event loop.
 
-If you want signals asynchronously, just use C<sigaction> as you would
-do without libev and forget about sharing the signal. You can even use
-C<ev_async> from a signal handler to synchronously wake up an event loop.
+You can configure as many watchers as you like for the same signal, but
+only within the same loop, i.e. you can watch for C<SIGINT> in your
+default loop and for C<SIGIO> in another loop, but you cannot watch for
+C<SIGINT> in both the default loop and another loop at the same time. At
+the moment, C<SIGCHLD> is permanently tied to the default loop.
 
-You can configure as many watchers as you like per signal. Only when the
-first watcher gets started will libev actually register something with
-the kernel (thus it coexists with your own signal handlers as long as you
-don't register any with libev for the same signal).
+When the first watcher gets started will libev actually register something
+with the kernel (thus it coexists with your own signal handlers as long as
+you don't register any with libev for the same signal).
 
 Both the signal mask state (C<sigprocmask>) and the signal handler state
 (C<sigaction>) are unspecified after starting a signal watcher (and after
@@ -3801,6 +3820,15 @@ provide a bare-bones event library. See C<ev.h> for details on what parts
 of the API are still available, and do not complain if this subset changes
 over time.
 
+=item EV_NSIG
+
+The highest supported signal number, +1 (or, the number of
+signals): Normally, libev tries to deduce the maximum number of signals
+automatically, but sometimes this fails, in which case it can be
+specified. Also, using a lower number than detected (C<32> should be
+good for about any system in existance) can save some memory, as libev
+statically allocates some 12-24 bytes per signal number.
+
 =item EV_PID_HASHSIZE
 
 C<ev_child> watchers use a small hash table to distribute workload by