Yep, this is called signals. Cheers.
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand. Which kind of UV event you want? > uv_on_shutdown_button_pressed? That makes no sense. libuv already lets > you manage signals (in case the "user event" you mean produces a > signal). > > 2014-05-10 16:07 GMT+02:00 Martin Sustrik <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > I start the event loop, it does what it should, everything works OK. > > > > Now I want to pass some user events to the event loop. E.g. "User pressed > > shutdown button and I want the event loop to terminate", "I want to get > the > > processing results accumulated so far" or similar. > > > > I can create an eventfd, register a callback for it, then I can signal > the > > eventfd and wait till the callback is invoked. > > > > However, it feels like libuv should have a canonical way of doing that. > Does > > it? And if so, how? > > > > Martin > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "libuv" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/libuv. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Iñaki Baz Castillo > <[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "libuv" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/libuv. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "libuv" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/libuv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
