=head1 NAME

Event - A Generic Perl Event Loop


=head1 SYNOPSIS

This extension aims to provide an simple and fast event loop for a
broad subset of applications.

Available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JPRIT/


=head1 R!CENT CHANGES


** 1998-09-04 RELEASE 0.10

- Event::TopServer implements a top-style control panel available via
telnet ($$ % 7000).  See util/top.pl.

- Proxy "tied" event type that allows completely perl-side
implementation of new event handlers.

- Event::process is working again (implementation is entirely in
perl).

- Eliminated race conditions in signal handling.

- Zombie events are still not being collected due to mysterious refcnt
problems.  It is possible that this cannot be resolved until perl
implements tied hashes properly (through a VTBL!).

- Removed $Event::*::Count since it is superceded by Event::TopServer.

- Fixed a bunch of minor bugs.


=head EVENT::TOPSERVER SCREENSHOT!

pl/3bork  [6215 @ eq1062]                                      15:35:21 [  30s]
21 events (2 zombies); load averages: 0.81, 0.83, 0.00                         
                                                                               
  EID PRI STATE  RAN  TIME  CPU  TYPE DESCRIPTION                            P1
   21   4 sleep   86  0:08 32.9% idle QSGTable sweep                           
   15   4 zomb   112  0:04 18.4% idle QSGTable sweep                           
   18   4 zomb    85  0:04 17.5% idle QSGTable sweep                           
    0   9 sleep  501  0:04 17.4%  sys idle                                     
   19   4 sleep   29  0:00  3.5% time QSGTable                                 
   13   4 sleep   29  0:00  3.3% time QSGTable                                 
    3   4 sleep   29  0:00  2.8% time server status                            
   16   4 sleep   29  0:00  1.7% time QSGTable                                 
   12   4 cpu      8  0:00  1.3% time Event::TopServer::Client localhost       
    1   4 sleep   30  0:00  0.7%   io Qt                                       
    4   4 sleep    1  0:00  0.2% time shutdown                                 
    2   4 sleep   29  0:00  0.1% time Qt                                       
   17   4 sleep   29  0:00  0.0% time QSGTable Detail                          
   20   4 sleep   29  0:00  0.0% time QSGTable Detail                          
   14   4 sleep   29  0:00  0.0% time QSGTable Detail                          
   10   4 sleep   15  0:00  0.0% time SSL items