libuv
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| Stable release | 1.8.0 / December 14, 2015 |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | OpenBSD, Linux, Android, Windows and OS X/Darwin[1] |
| Type | I/O Abstraction Library |
| License | MIT |
| Website |
github |
libuv is a software library that provides asynchronous event notification. libuv supports epoll(4), kqueue(2), Windows IOCP, and Solaris event ports. It is primarily designed for use in Node.js but it is also used by other software projects.[1] It was originally an abstraction around libev or Microsoft IOCP, as libev doesn't support Windows. On node-v0.9.0's version of libuv, the dependency on libev was removed.[2] libuv is also available as a Debian package.[3]
Features
From:[1]
- Full-featured event loop backed by epoll, kqueue, IOCP, event ports.
- Asynchronous TCP and UDP sockets
- Asynchronous DNS resolution
- Asynchronous file and file system operations
- File system events
- ANSI escape code controlled TTY
- IPC with socket sharing, using Unix domain sockets or named pipes (Windows)
- Child processes
- Thread pool
- Signal handling
- High resolution clock
- Threading and synchronization primitives
See also
- libevent
- libev
References
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