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About this document

This document will teach you how to use Libevent 2.0 (and later) to write fast portable asynchronous network IO programs in C. We assume:

That you already know C.
That you already know the basic C networking calls (socket(), connect(), and so on).

A note on examples

The examples in this document should work all right on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Android. Some of the examples may not compile on Windows.