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libivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification. It is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as kqueue(2) and poll(2). this is a dependency of more recent versions of syslog-ng.
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libivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification.
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It is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as
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kqueue(2) and poll(2).
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libivykis was mainly designed for building high-performance network
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applications, but can be used in any event-driven application that uses
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poll(2)able file descriptors as its event sources.
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While some programming models dictate using blocking I/O and starting a
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thread per event source, programs written to the ivykis API are
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generally single-threaded (or use only a small number of threads), and
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never block on I/O. All input and output is done in a nonblocking
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fashion, with I/O readiness notifications delivered via callback
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functions.
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