[Libevent-users] timeouts are not working as documented

[Niels Provos]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Forest <list8a.forest at tibit.com> wrote:
>  I'm calling event_set() with EV_PERSIST, and building against libevent
>  1.3b on linux.  Are timeouts known to be broken with either of these?

The behavior of timeouts with EV_PERSIST is not well documented and
somewhat counter intuitive; see

 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1831173&group_id=50884&atid=461325

You might also want to use a more recent version of libevent as 1.3b
is over a year old.

Niels.