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Joachim Nilsson
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This fork is called libuev and will focus solely on embedded Linux systems using C. Patches for other UNIX-like operating systems are welcome. - Remove Lua support, will not be used. - Rename from LibUEvent to libuev where applicable - Add project's MIT license to top of all files, as is customary - Add a LICENSE file, as is customary This MIT licensed code was cloned from the Mercurial repository at Google http://code.google.com/p/libuevent/ which had mislabled the license as "New BSD License", which is wrong. The actual license of the project is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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libuev - Asynchronous event loop library
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The libuev library is a small event library in the style of the venerable
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Xt(3) event loop.
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Basically an event context is created,and handlers for timeounts and stream
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events can be registered with this context.
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After initial setup, the typical application will enter the event loop that
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will only return at program termination.
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The C API
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The typical application will do the following steps
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1. Create the event context with lueCtxtCreate()
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2. Register initial callbacks with lueAddInput, lueAddOutput and lueAddTimer
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3. Enter the event loop
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Building
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--------
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Use make:
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* make all: The library
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* make test: Test and showcase
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Installation
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Is purely manual, but would be something along the lines of:
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sudo install -m 444 libuev.so.1 /usr/lib/libuev.so.1
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Warning
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Not thread safe!
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The ctxt structure needs mutex protection in case of multi threaded
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access.
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