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The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function
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when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout
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has been reached.
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libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in
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event driven network servers. An application just needs to call
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event_dispatch() and can then add or remove events dynamically
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without having to change the event loop.
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Currently, libevent supports kqueue(2) and select(2). Support for
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poll(2) and /dev/poll is planned. The internal event mechanism is
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completely independent of the exposed event API, and a simple update
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of libevent can provide this new functionality without having to
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redesign the server applications.
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WWW: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
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- Pete
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petef@databits.net
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