The evio.h library, is a KQueue/EPoll abstraction for edge triggered events and is part of facil.io's core.
It should be noted that exactly like epoll and kqueue, evio.h might produce unexpected results if forked after initialized, since this will cause the epoll/kqueue data to be shared across processes, even though these processes will not have access to new file descriptors (i.e. fd 90 on one process might reference file “A” while on a different process the same fd (90) might reference file “B”).
This documentation isn't relevant for facil.io users. facil.io implements evio.h callbacks and evio.h cannot be used without removing facil.h anf facil.c from the project.
This file is here as quick reference to anyone interested in maintaining facil.io or learning about how it's insides work.
Event callbacks are defined during the linking stage and are hardwired once compilation is complete.
void evio_on_data(void *) - called when the file descriptor has incoming data. This is edge triggered and will not be called again unless all the previous data was consumed.
void evio_on_ready(void *) - called when the file descriptor is ready to send data (outgoing).
void evio_on_error(void *) - called when a file descriptor raises an error while being polled.
void evio_on_close(void *) - called when a file descriptor was closed REMOTELY. evio_on_close will NOT get called when a connection is closed locally, unless using sock.h's callback, the sock_on_close function.
Notice: Both EPoll and KQueue will not raise an event for an fd that was closed using the native close function, so unless using sock.h or calling evio_on_close, the evio_on_close callback will only be called for remote events.
Notice: The on_open event is missing by design, as it is expected that any initialization required for the on_open event will be performed before attaching the file descriptor (socket/timer/pipe) to evio using evio_add.
evio APIComing soon... until then, please review the header file for documentation.