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[D-O-H] r978 - trunk/owl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nelhage@MIT.EDU)
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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:29:55 -0500 (EST)
Author: nelhage
Date: 2008-03-01 19:29:54 -0500 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008)
New Revision: 978
Modified:
trunk/owl/perlwrap.pm
Log:
Update perlwrap.pm documentation for the select() BarnOwl
Modified: trunk/owl/perlwrap.pm
===================================================================
--- trunk/owl/perlwrap.pm 2008-03-01 23:44:04 UTC (rev 977)
+++ trunk/owl/perlwrap.pm 2008-03-02 00:29:54 UTC (rev 978)
@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@
Returns the number of colors this BarnOwl is capable of displaying
+=head2 add_dispatch FD CALLBACK
+
+Adds a file descriptor to C<BarnOwl>'s internal C<select()>
+loop. C<CALLBACK> will be invoked whenever data is available to be
+read from C<FD>.
+
+=head2 remove_dispatch FD
+
+Remove a file descriptor previously registered via C<add_dispatch>
+
=cut
@@ -651,9 +661,9 @@
=item $mainLoop
-Called on B<every pass> through the C<BarnOwl> main loop. Any
-functions with this hook should be very cheap, as they are very
-frequently by the runtime.
+Called on every pass through the C<BarnOwl> main loop. This is
+guaranteed to be called at least once/sec and may be called more
+frequently.
=item $getBuddyList
