libuev - Asynchronous event loop library

The libuev library is a small event library in the style of the venerable Xt(3) event loop.

Basically an event context is created,and handlers for timeounts and stream events can be registered with this context.

After initial setup, the typical application will enter the event loop that will only return at program termination.

The C API

The typical application will do the following steps

1. Create the event context with lueCtxtCreate()
2. Register initial callbacks with lueAddInput, lueAddOutput and lueAddTimer
3. Enter the event loop

Building

Use make:

• make all: The library
• make test: Test and showcase

Installation

Is purely manual, but would be something along the lines of: sudo install -m 444 libuev.so.1 /usr/lib/libuev.so.1

Warning

Not thread safe!

The ctxt structure needs mutex protection in case of multi threaded access.