On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:52:48PM +0000, "Srini Gurusu (sgurusu)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >watcher is the relatively costly memory synchronisation done by
> >ev_async_send.
>
> For simplicity, if I use ev_sync_send(),
> Do we need to protect ev_sync_send() as this will be called by producer
> and
> consumer as well on the same loop/watcher.
As long as the loop exists and the watcher is started, you should be able
to call ev_async_send at any time without any protection - same thread,
other thread, signal handler, inside a callback, outside a callback etc.
should all be fine.
It's the only function in libev that allows this.
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