About free watcher in callback function

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:57:55AM +0800, 钱晓明 <mailtoantares at 163.com> wrote:
> Hi, if my ev_io watcher is allocated by malloc(), can I stop it and free() it in its read/write callback function? After returned from callback function, dose libev still access this watcher?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:51:55AM +0200, Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer at gmx.net> wrote:
> AFAIK libev won't access a stopped watcher, so you can do that.

Basically yes - one minor nitpick though: a stopped watcher is not enough,
as it might sxpitll be pending (very unlikely in a watcher callback, but
possible if the callback makes it pending again).

ev_XXX_stop is enough to tell libev to keep it hands off because it also does
the equivalent of ev_clear_pending.

So merely being stopped is not ehough, but using ev_XXX_stop is enough.

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