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Changes for version 3.51 - 2008-12-24

  • do not cache the arguments passed to callbacks if the refcount indicates that the callback has stolen them.
  • (libev) try to avoid librt on GNU/Linux.
  • (libev) check port_getn return value dfferently, might potentially avoid problems.
  • (libev) fix a bug with stat watchers possibly causing freezes.
  • (libev) work around OS X 10.5 breaking poll, now select is the only viable choice left on that pile of garbage.
  • play tester whore: disable some tests that typically fail only on cpan tester machines.

Documentation

a high performance full-featured event loop written in C

Modules

EV
perl interface to libev, a high performance full-featured event loop
MakeMaker glue for the C-level EV API