{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10854","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10854/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10854/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10854/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10854","id":69062113,"number":10854,"title":"Unexport thin wrapper functions around libuv?","user":{"login":"jiahao","id":1732,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1732?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao","html_url":"https://github.com/jiahao","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jiahao/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-04-17T04:44:17Z","updated_at":"2015-04-17T04:44:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The functions\r\n\r\n- `start_timer`\r\n- `stop_timer`\r\n- `start_reading`\r\n- `stop_reading`\r\n- `start_watching`\r\n\r\nare essentially thin wrappers around libuv functions of similar names and probably should be unexported.\r\n\r\n1.  The last three have no documentation.\r\n2. The counterpart to `start_watching`, `stop_watching`, is unexported.\r\n3. `start_timer` is only called by `sleep` and `timedwait`.\r\n4. `stop_timer` is only called by `timedwait`.\r\n5. Neither `start_timer` nor `stop_timer` validate their arguments, leading to possible weird errors like in #10847"}}