Re: [Libevent-users] Faking EVLOOP_NO_EXIT_ON_EMPTY on earlier versions

[Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:32:13AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm working on a program (a Tacacs+ proxy) which, for now, has 2 threads one
> which listens to DBus requests (not using libevent, but I'll change that
> eventually) and another which manages TCP sockets (via the bufferevent
> stuff) inside an event_base_dispatch().
> 
> I'm on Debian 8 and have 2.0.5 installed... I don't have
> EVLOOP_NO_EXIT_ON_EMPTY available since that was introduced in 2.1.1.
> 
> Is there an easy way to get the same functionality without burning a lot of
> CPU with:
> 
>     while (1)
>         event_base_dispatch(evbase);

Hi Philip,

You can hack this by adding a listener for some signal, with
evsignal_*() stuff.

But maybe it is better to use 2.1?

Cheers,
Azat.
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