Re: pending signal events

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:32:26PM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> >Because merely calling asynccheck never eliminates the race condition.
> >It just makes it "shorter."
> 
> It does eliminate the race condition, in that it makes ->pending return a
> list of pending events that was correct at some point during ->pending's
> execution.  Also, the type of situation I've got in my program, blocking
> signals, means that there is no race condition anyway -- no new signals
> can arrive while ->pending is executing.

Hrm, what's wrong with calling Event::_queue_pending() directly before
calling $watcher->pending()?  Would that work for you?  If so, maybe
_queue_pending() should be documented?

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