Re: [Libevent-users] Question on paired buffer events

2011-07-02 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ed Day wrote: > In reading the documentation on paired buffer events, it says they can > be used in "a networking program that needs to talk to itself".  That > is exactly what I have and this capability sounds like what I need to > implement an internal queue.  Bu

Re: [Libevent-users] Question on paired buffer events

2011-07-01 Thread Mark Ellzey
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:51:28AM -0400, Ed Day wrote: > By "fell out the bottom" I mean returned immediately. > > Ed > > Correct, if there are no events in a base, the loop terminates. Normally you use them in situations where you have other things going on. I am assuming this is derived via

Re: [Libevent-users] Question on paired buffer events

2011-07-01 Thread Ed Day
By "fell out the bottom" I mean returned immediately. Ed On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Mark Ellzey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:53:12PM -0400, Ed Day wrote: >> I then went into the event dispatch loop and immediately fell out the bottom. >> Is this not the correct way to use these eve

Re: [Libevent-users] Question on paired buffer events

2011-07-01 Thread Mark Ellzey
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:53:12PM -0400, Ed Day wrote: > I then went into the event dispatch loop and immediately fell out the bottom. > > Is this not the correct way to use these events? > What does "fell out the bottom" mean? *