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0.1.0 Dec 3, 2019

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MIT/Apache

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File Descriptor Reactor

Provides an async reactor for handling file descriptors in a background thread.

The purpose of this crate is to provide a standardized means of creating generic std::future::Future types which need to register file descriptors -- and which are independent of a particular async runtime -- as opposed to rolling their own reactors on a background thread. Futures created with this would be universally compatible with both async-std and tokio, and share the same background thread.

Implementation Notes

  • The reactor's background thread is spawned on the first time that the reactor handle is fetched.
  • Each file descriptor registers an interest to listen for.
  • On registering a new file descriptor, a pipe is used to interrupt the poll operation.

License

Licensed under either of

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Dependencies

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