Changeset b07d8c8 for perlwrap.pm

Timestamp:

Mar 1, 2008, 7:29:54 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>

Branches:

master, barnowl_perlaim, debian, release-1.10, release-1.4, release-1.5, release-1.6, release-1.7, release-1.8, release-1.9

Children:

661d2eb

Parents:

e005862

Message:

Update perlwrap.pm documentation for the select() BarnOwl

File:

• perlwrap.pm (modified) (2 diffs)

perlwrap.pm

@@ -122 +122 @@
 
 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
@@ -652 +662 @@
 =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