What would it take to port libeio to windows?
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Almost a year later, what you may want to look into (you, or anyone else finding this via search or Google) is libuv, formerly liboio. Contrary to the the accepted answer, it’s not so much that Windows is, or at the time was, bereft of the concept of evented i/o, it just wasn’t well-known outside of the arcane circle of deep-knowledge Windows API developers. In the Windows space, a similar concept is implemented as I/O Completion Ports, so it’s not so much that a libeio version/port/fork/analog would need to reimplement the wheel, it’d just have to have a libeio-looking API to something that was using IOCP under the hood.