Using EV_CUSTOM for custom events

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Zsbán Ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> [12/04/28 00:46]:
> > OK, a timer with zero timeout looks safer than a watcher on a
> > signal, since in the latter case there could be spurious wake-ups.
> There wouldn't be, because you never actually _start_ the signal
> watcher, so it never watches for anything.  You just make it pending
> with the ev_feed_event function, which makes the loop run its callback
> next time.  What kind of watcher it is doesn't really matter if the
> watcher is not active.
> 
> Note that if you make a watcher pending this way, then the event loop
> will reference it, so you can't free its memory until you call
> ev_signal_stop which clears its pending state.

This makes it a lot more clear. Thank you very much!
And reading the code is always easier with such guidance.

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