C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer

Summary

events A tiny, lightning fast event loop, utilizing single interface for epoll, kqueue, iocp. This project takes up where picoev left off, it forks and remake, bringing in aspects from FastCGI_A_High-Performance_Web_Server_Interface_FastCGI.html source fcgi2, specificity, how to make Windows file descriptors aka fake behave like on Linux. As such, this events library handles general non-blocking file I/O. This system supports interfacing epoll, kqueue, and iocp thru wepoll. In reading Practical difference between epoll and Windows IO Completion Ports (IOCP) discuss things where wepoll seem to fill. c-events provides function wrappers to some Linux like functionality, exp. mkfifo for Windows. However, this project is base around adding/registering an event for an file descriptor, and you reacting using general platform/OS calls. It differs from libev, libeio, libevent, and libuv. It does not provide complete handling using special functions. It’s more geared towards a supplement to libuv, for more finer grain control. Some Libevent examples and tests have been brought in and modified for basic testing this library. Table of Contents Features events provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Every event represents a set of conditions, including: A file descriptor being ready to read from or write to, events_add(loop, listen_sock, EVENTS_READ | EVENTS_WRITE, 0, accept_callback, NULL). A file descriptor has close, events_add(loop, listen_sock, EVENTS_READ | EVENTS_CLOSE, 0, accept_callback, NULL). A timeout expiring on file descriptor in 5 secods, events_add(loop, listen_sock, EVENTS_READ | EVENTS_TIMEOUT, 5, accept_callback, NULL). A signal occurring, events_add(loop, SIGINT, EVENTS_SIGNAL, 0, signal_cb, NULL). A user-triggered event, execute in 500 milliseconds, actor_t *actor = events_actor(loop, 500, actor_cb, NULL), events_repeat_actor(actor, seconds(2)), events_clear_ac...