On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Mark Ruys <mark.r...@sensoterra.com> wrote: > Posted also at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29219314/how-to-break-out-libevents-dispatch-loop > [...] > The behavior is that if you run the program, request a page, abort the > program by Ctrl-C, the event_base_dispatch() keeps running *until* you fetch > another web page. Only then the loop aborts and the program terminates. What > I need is that the dispatch loop is exited immediately, not after the next > page request. Is this possible?
If you need the event loop to exit before running any more callbacks, use event_base_break() http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/Ref3_eventloop.html hope this helps, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.