+ * \subsection polltime Notes on time-based events
+ *
+ * The above complication with having to track time and call into libusbx at
+ * specific moments is a bit of a headache. For maximum compatibility, you do
+ * need to write your main loop as above, but you may decide that you can
+ * restrict the supported platforms of your application and get away with
+ * a more simplistic scheme.
+ *
+ * These time-based event complications are \b not required on the following
+ * platforms:
+ * - Darwin
+ * - Linux, provided that the following version requirements are satisfied:
+ * - Linux v2.6.27 or newer, compiled with timerfd support
+ * - glibc v2.9 or newer
+ * - libusbx v1.0.5 or newer
+ *
+ * Under these configurations, libusb_get_next_timeout() will \em always return
+ * 0, so your main loop can be simplified to:
+\code
+// initialise libusbx
+
+libusb_get_pollfds(ctx)
+while (user has not requested application exit) {
+ poll(on libusbx file descriptors plus any other event sources of interest,
+ using any timeout that you like)
+ if (poll() indicated activity on libusbx file descriptors)
+ libusb_handle_events_timeout(ctx, &zero_tv);
+ // handle events from other sources here
+}
+
+// clean up and exit
+\endcode
+ *
+ * Do remember that if you simplify your main loop to the above, you will
+ * lose compatibility with some platforms (including legacy Linux platforms,
+ * and <em>any future platforms supported by libusbx which may have time-based
+ * event requirements</em>). The resultant problems will likely appear as
+ * strange bugs in your application.
+ *
+ * You can use the libusb_pollfds_handle_timeouts() function to do a runtime
+ * check to see if it is safe to ignore the time-based event complications.
+ * If your application has taken the shortcut of ignoring libusbx's next timeout
+ * in your main loop, then you are advised to check the return value of
+ * libusb_pollfds_handle_timeouts() during application startup, and to abort
+ * if the platform does suffer from these timing complications.
+ *
+ * \subsection fdsetchange Changes in the file descriptor set
+ *
+ * The set of file descriptors that libusbx uses as event sources may change