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Event aims to bring Lindependence to one California town

07-15-2008 01:00 PM
An enterprising group has taken on a radical approach in attracting users to Linux: switch a whole town! Dubbed "Lindependence 2008" (a.k.a. LIN08), this event strives to switch citizens in Felton, Calif., for at least a week from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The initiative, loosely led by Ken Starks in Austin, Texas, and Larry Cafiero in Felton, has taken the idea of introducing normal computer users to Linux to screaming heights. By July 28, those in Felton who decide to take the plunge will go Microsoft-free for a week or more.



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EVENT(3)								 1								  EVENT(3)

The Event class

INTRODUCTION
Event class represents and event firing on a file descriptor being ready to read from or write to; a file descriptor becoming ready to read from or write to(edge-triggered I/O only); a timeout expiring; a signal occuring; a user-triggered event. Every event is associated with EventBase . However, event will never fire until it is added (via Event::add ). An added event remains in pending state until the registered event occurs, thus turning it to active state. To handle events user may register a callback which is called when event becomes active. If event is configured persistent , it remains pending. If it is not persistent, it stops being pending when it's callback runs. Event::del method deletes event, thus making it non-pending. By means of Event::add method it could be added again. CLASS SYNOPSIS
Event final Event Constants o const integer$Event::ET32 o const integer$Event::PERSIST16 o const integer$Event::READ2 o const integer$Event::WRITE4 o const integer$Event::SIGNAL8 o const integer$Event::TIMEOUT1 Properties o publicreadonly bool$pending Methods o public bool Event::add ([double $timeout]) o public bool Event::addSignal ([double $timeout]) o public bool Event::addTimer ([double $timeout]) o public Event::__construct (EventBase $base, mixed $fd, int $what, callable $cb, [mixed $arg = NULL]) o public bool Event::del (void ) o public bool Event::delSignal (void ) o public bool Event::delTimer (void ) o public void Event::free (void ) o publicstatic array Event::getSupportedMethods (void ) o public bool Event::pending (int $flags) o public bool Event::set (EventBase $base, mixed $fd, [int $what], [callable $cb], [mixed $arg]) o public bool Event::setPriority (int $priority) o public bool Event::setTimer (EventBase $base, callable $cb, [mixed $arg]) o publicstatic Event Event::signal (EventBase $base, int $signum, callable $cb, [mixed $arg]) o publicstatic Event Event::timer (EventBase $base, callable $cb, [mixed $arg]) PROPERTIES
o $pending - Whether event is pending. See About event persistence . PREDEFINED CONSTANTS
o Event::ET - Indicates that the event should be edge-triggered, if the underlying event base backend supports edge-triggered events. This affects the semantics of Event::READ and Event::WRITE . o Event::PERSIST - Indicates that the event is persistent. See About event persistence . o Event::READ - This flag indicates an event that becomes active when the provided file descriptor(usually a stream resource, or socket) is ready for reading. o Event::WRITE - This flag indicates an event that becomes active when the provided file descriptor(usually a stream resource, or socket) is ready for reading. o Event::SIGNAL - Used to implement signal detection. See "Constructing signal events" below. o Event::TIMEOUT - This flag indicates an event that becomes active after a timeout elapses. The Event::TIMEOUT flag is ignored when constructing an event: one can either set a timeout when event is added , or not. It is set in the $what argument to the callback function when a timeout has occurred. PHP Documentation Group EVENT(3)