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? -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org
--- 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 @@ If you have insights or complaints then please subscribe to the mailing list! Send email to: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -The body of your message should read: - - subscribe perl-loop - -This list is archived at - - http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-loop/ - -Thanks! + [EMAIL PROTECTED] =head1 AUTHOR @@ -776,8 +777,11 @@ =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright � 1997-2000 Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin & Graham Barr. All -rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute -it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. +Copyright � 1997 Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin & Graham Barr + +Copyright � 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Joshua Nathaniel Pritikin + +All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can +redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut
