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| author | Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de> | 2018-10-15 11:40:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> | 2018-10-17 15:55:54 +0200 |
| commit | 09ec796afe4611c15ff0e6e021e23bdb5af24ea8 (patch) | |
| tree | ddbbc4bd353d185a8ab4cce3f3ac2019c0aea27b /rules/libuv.in | |
| parent | a373124c1719cf0711799f0aa9d2d2516f80bc4b (diff) | |
| download | ptxdist-09ec796afe4611c15ff0e6e021e23bdb5af24ea8.tar.gz ptxdist-09ec796afe4611c15ff0e6e021e23bdb5af24ea8.tar.xz | |
libuv: add new library for asynchronous event notifications
Libuv is the asynchronous library behind Node.js.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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diff --git a/rules/libuv.in b/rules/libuv.in new file mode 100644 index 000000000..eedb745c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/rules/libuv.in @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +## SECTION=system_libraries + +config LIBUV + tristate + prompt "libuv" + help + asynchronous event notification library - runtime library + + Libuv is the asynchronous library behind Node.js. Very + similar to libevent or libev, it provides the main elements + for event driven systems: watching and waiting for + availability in a set of sockets, and some other events like + timers or asynchronous messages. However, libuv also comes + with some other extras like: + + * files watchers and asynchronous operations + * a portable TCP and UDP API, as well as asynchronous DNS + resolution + * processes and threads management, and a portable + inter-process communications mechanism, with pipes and + work queues + * a plugins mechanism for loading libraries dynamically + * interface with external libraries that also need to access + the I/O. |