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Welcome to the libuv API documentation
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Overview
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libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. It
was primarily developed for use by `Node.js`_, but it's also used by `Luvit`_,
`Julia`_, `pyuv`_, and `others`_.
.. note::
In case you find errors in this documentation you can help by sending
`pull requests <https://github.com/libuv/libuv>`_!
.. _Node.js: http://nodejs.org
.. _Luvit: http://luvit.io
.. _Julia: http://julialang.org
.. _pyuv: https://github.com/saghul/pyuv
.. _others: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv
Features
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* Full-featured event loop backed by epoll, kqueue, IOCP, event ports.
* Asynchronous TCP and UDP sockets
* Asynchronous DNS resolution
* Asynchronous file and file system operations
* File system events
* ANSI escape code controlled TTY
* IPC with socket sharing, using Unix domain sockets or named pipes (Windows)
* Child processes
* Thread pool
* Signal handling
* High resolution clock
* Threading and synchronization primitives
Downloads
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libuv can be downloaded from `here <http://dist.libuv.org/dist/>`_.
Installation
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Installation instructions can be found on `the README <https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/master/README.md>`_.
Upgrading
---------
Migration guides for different libuv versions, starting with 1.0.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
migration_010_100
Documentation
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
design
errors
version
loop
handle
request
timer
prepare
check
idle
async
poll
signal
process
stream
tcp
pipe
tty
udp
fs_event
fs_poll
fs
threadpool
dns
dll
threading
misc
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