[Libevent-users] announcing libev, towards a faster and more featureful libevent

Scott Lamb slamb at slamb.org
Mon Nov 5 00:56:44 EST 2007


Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> That seems rather undesirable for many applications.
> 
> Well, its arguably better than libevents behaviour, which is simply
> returning from event_loop, leaving the app unclear on what has happened
> and what to do.
> 
> In any case, you can get the same behaviour as libevent by calling unloop
> in case of an error, so the interface is strictly more powerful.

Another reason this is undesirable: to get the libevent behavior, I'd
have to have this logic in *every callback* to get the same behavior.



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