Purpose

Prepare handles will run the given callback once per loop iteration, right before polling for i/o.

new_prepare

uv.new_prepare()

Initialize the handle.

Parameters

none

Examples

local prepare_handle = uv.new_prepare()

prepare_start

uv.prepare_start( prepare_handle, callback )

Start the handle with the given callback.

Parameters

none

Examples

uv.prepare_start( prepare_handle, function()
  print( 'preparing...')
end )

prepare_stop

uv.prepare_stop( prepare_handle )

Stop the handle, the callback will no longer be called.

Parameters

none

Examples

uv.prepare_stop( prepare_handle )

See also

The following API functionality applies to all handles:

handles