Fast portable non-blocking network programming with Libevent

Fast portable non-blocking network programming with Libevent

Learning Libevent

Chapter 0: About this document

Chapter 1: A tiny introduction to asynchronous IO.

A Libevent Reference Manual

R0: Preliminaries

R1: Setting up the Libevent library

R2: Getting an event_base

R3: Running an event loop

R4: Working with events

R5: Utility and portability functions

R6: Bufferevents: concepts and basics

R6a: Bufferevents: advanced topics

R7: Evbuffers: utility functionality for buffered IO

R8: Connection listeners: accepting TCP connections

R9: DNS for Libevent

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Additionally, the source code examples in these documents are also licensed under the so-called "3-Clause" or "Modified" BSD license. See the license_bsd file distributed with these documents for the full terms.

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