创建计时器event按照如下步骤:
event_init(); //初始化event_base
//创建timer event
struct event timer_ev;
evtimer_set(&timer_ev, callback_fn, NULL);
//evtimer_set(ev, cb, arg)宏相当于event_set(ev, -1, 0, cb, arg)
//添加timer event到侦听中
struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 5; //5 seconds
tv.tv_usec = 0;
evtimer_add(&timer_ev, &tv);
//evtimer_add(ev, tv)宏相当于event_add(ev, tv)
event_dispatch();
注意:如上创建的timer event不是persistent的(因为evtimer_set
等价的event_set(ev, -1, 0, cb, arg)
的第三个参数没有指定EV_PERSIST
),即该事件在被触发一次(timeout达到5秒)之后即返回,不再参与到libevent的下次侦听了。
因此,想重复定时器,需要反复增加定时器
static void clock_handler(const int fd, const short which, void *arg) {
struct timeval t = {.tv_sec = 1, .tv_usec = 0};
static bool initialized = false;
if (initialized) {
/* only delete the event if it's actually there. */
evtimer_del(&clockevent);
} else {
initialized = true;
}
evtimer_set(&clockevent, clock_handler, 0);
event_base_set(main_base, &clockevent);
evtimer_add(&clockevent, &t);
set_current_time();
}