On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:33:25AM -0500, Allen Smith wrote:
> > Are there any other important bugs that need to be addressed?
> 
> Don't know myself of anything that qualifies as a _bug_... working on
> the documentation (as in updating the manpage to have the information
> on group watchers that the Tutorial does, plus telling people what
> "StarvePrio" is) would be nice, though.

Uh, OK.  How's this patch?

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--- Event-0.83/lib/Event.pod    Fri Dec  8 01:57:45 2000
+++ Event/lib/Event.pod Tue Jan 22 12:12:29 2002
@@ -591,6 +591,17 @@
   asynccheck   check for signals, etc
   callback     invoked before each event callback
 
+=item * StarvePrio
+
+This is a very small optimization that you probably don't have to know
+about.  If you are still curious then here is the description:
+
+Lots of events queued with priority less than StarvePrio are
+dispatched before entering select/poll.  This can cause starvation of
+I/O watcher if an async watcher is queuing *lots* of events.  However,
+since async events should be relatively rare, you will never see this
+happen.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 C API
@@ -744,17 +755,7 @@
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