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| 16 | Some of the specialties of libev not commonly found elsewhere are: |
16 | Some of the specialties of libev not commonly found elsewhere are: |
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| 18 | - extensive and detailed, readable documentation (not doxygen garbage). |
18 | - extensive and detailed, readable documentation (not doxygen garbage). |
| 19 | - fully supports fork, can detect fork in various ways and automatically |
19 | - fully supports fork, can detect fork in various ways and automatically |
| 20 | re-arms kernel mechanisms that do not support fork. |
20 | re-arms kernel mechanisms that do not support fork. |
| 21 | - highly optimised select, poll, epoll, kqueue and event ports backends. |
21 | - highly optimised select, poll, linux epoll, linux aio, bsd kqueue |
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22 | and solaris event ports backends. |
| 22 | - filesystem object (path) watching (with optional linux inotify support). |
23 | - filesystem object (path) watching (with optional linux inotify support). |
| 23 | - wallclock-based times (using absolute time, cron-like). |
24 | - wallclock-based times (using absolute time, cron-like). |
| 24 | - relative timers/timeouts (handle time jumps). |
25 | - relative timers/timeouts (handle time jumps). |
| 25 | - fast intra-thread communication between multiple |
26 | - fast intra-thread communication between multiple |
| 26 | event loops (with optional fast linux eventfd backend). |
27 | event loops (with optional fast linux eventfd backend). |
