I'm having trouble getting timeouts to work. According to the docs,
"libevent can assign timeout events to file descriptors that are triggered
whenever a certain amount of time has passed with no activity on a file
descriptor."
When I create a socket read event and pass a {12, 0} timeout to
event_add(), my callback gets called with EV_TIMEOUT 12 seconds after
startup, even when there have been read events just a second or two
earlier. Contrary to the docs, libevent is triggering the timeout
regardless of activity on the socket.
I'm calling event_set() with EV_PERSIST, and building against libevent
1.3b on linux. Are timeouts known to be broken with either of these?
Furthermore, the docs describe different behavior for timers and timeouts,
yet a look at event.h shows no difference between them:
#define evtimer_set(ev, cb, arg) event_set(ev, -1, 0, cb, arg)
#define timeout_set(ev, cb, arg) event_set(ev, -1, 0, cb, arg)
#define evtimer_add(ev, tv) event_add(ev, tv)
#define timeout_add(ev, tv) event_add(ev, tv)
Can someone explain that?
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