On 16 October 2012 04:35, Programmist Setevik <programmist.sete...@gmail.com> wrote: > Portability issues aside, is there a way to ask event_base_* functions > to enforce epoll_wait()-like timeout ? > > I need to have an ability to generate "ticks" - say once every 100 > msec or thereabouts and run some callbacks whenever ticks occur. > > I understand libevent offers its own way to generate these, but is > there a way to ask libevent to pass the TO value to epoll_wait ? > > The legacy code I have, does something like this (pseudo):
The point of using libevent is it makes your code portable and all the different IO and timer things all (supposed to) correctly work. :-) So why would you add an epoll like timeout? You can just use the libevent timer event and set it to 100ms. Adrian *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
