| 1 | libasyncio |
| 2 | =========== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | A library providing for dealing with asynchronous IO. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The basic idea for this lib is to provide classes which hide the details |
| 7 | of polling/selecting for events on file descriptors and provide a more |
| 8 | convenient interface which supports the idea of event driven programming. |
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| 11 | The library was originally developed by Intra2net AG as part of the |
| 12 | Intranator connection daemon which is part of the Intranator (see http://www.intra2net.com/). |
| 13 | During development it was extracted as a separate module. |
| 14 | We then decided to publish it under The GNU Public License (GPL) + linking exception. |
| 15 | See the "LICENSE" file for more details. |
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| 17 | |
| 18 | |
| 19 | libasyncio provides: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | - basic class for handling reading from and writing to fd's |
| 22 | - filter plugin support for incoming/outgoing data. |
| 23 | - timer events |
| 24 | - deferred function calls; "frozen" function calls |
| 25 | - start and handle subprocesses (connecting to their stdin/stdout/stderr) |
| 26 | - unix domain socket handling |
| 27 | - event signals (using boost-signal lib) |
| 28 | - ... and some more stuff. |
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| 30 | |
| 31 | It depends on the boost library (see http://www.boost.org/). |
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| 34 | Links: |
| 35 | ====== |
| 36 | |
| 37 | The Boost library: http://www.boost.org/ |
| 38 | Intra2net: http://www.intra2net.com/ |