[Libevent-users] files and libevent

[Teunis Peters]

I've not found any code to work with - but is there any reason that 
libevent would not work with standard files?

I keep getting permission denied

more or less:

fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY)
event_set(&ev, EV_READ | EV_PERSIST, rd_callback, rd_data);
event_add(&ev, NULL)
-> EPERM

Or does libevent only work with network connections?

aside: the other thing that I've been looking into is the possibility of 
getting the http package to pass data through a callback rather than 
store to memory.  I've been testing it with podcasts and 50 mb files are 
proving too heavyweight.   (the lack of ability to display progress is 
proving annoying as well)

Thank you!
    - Teunis Peters