Re: Event examples || documentation

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:24:55PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> 	From the pod:
> 
> 	hits=>$int
> 	  A watcher increments 'hits' every time it registers an event.
> Signals in
> 	  quick succession can be clumped into a single event.
> 
> 	What happens if two sigs come in at the same time?

Then $e->hits == 2;

>  Will all signals be handled by the cb accordingly?

Yes.

> 	Also, does signal handling using Event.pm suffer from the same
> problems
> 	in perl where a signal handler that does something that malloc()'s?
> ie print().

No.  Signals are handled outside of the signal handler so they will
never cause crashes.

> 	>Only loop() once.  ;-)
> 
> 	Ok. I have a better understanding now.  loop until unloop() (which
> needs to be  
> 	in a cb)  So I can create many event watchers, and once I loop(),
> they all kick off.     

Yah.

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