On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Ringel, Rick <rick.rin...@g3ti.net> wrote:
> > You don't need the while loop around event_base_dispatch - it is your > loop. > > I've used Boost for a few things, and in that library, I found the service > thread does return occasionally. It was defensive code, sort of my seat > belt. > event_base_dispatch returns only if there are no events to wait for. It this case you will have a busy loop. If you want to prevent this return, you can add a timeout event with very long timeout, and make it persistent.
