If we want mainly an epoll based loop over file-descriptors, what else features does the libevent offer (not interested in http or dns stuff)??
I know it’s quite a big project, but it looks quite simple to me to write an epoll wrapper API.
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epollis only available on Linux;libeventcontains some abstractions such that it’ll use other similar APIs on other operating systems (for instance:kqueueon OpenBSD).