1 2Welcome to the libuv documentation 3================================== 4 5Overview 6-------- 7 8libuv is a multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O. It 9was primarily developed for use by `Node.js`_, but it's also used by `Luvit`_, 10`Julia`_, `uvloop`_, and `others`_. 11 12.. note:: 13 In case you find errors in this documentation you can help by sending 14 `pull requests <https://github.com/libuv/libuv>`_! 15 16.. _Node.js: https://nodejs.org 17.. _Luvit: https://luvit.io 18.. _Julia: https://julialang.org 19.. _uvloop: https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop 20.. _others: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/v1.x/LINKS.md 21 22 23Features 24-------- 25 26* Full-featured event loop backed by epoll, kqueue, IOCP, event ports. 27* Asynchronous TCP and UDP sockets 28* Asynchronous DNS resolution 29* Asynchronous file and file system operations 30* File system events 31* ANSI escape code controlled TTY 32* IPC with socket sharing, using Unix domain sockets or named pipes (Windows) 33* Child processes 34* Thread pool 35* Signal handling 36* High resolution clock 37* Threading and synchronization primitives 38 39 40Documentation 41------------- 42 43.. toctree:: 44 :maxdepth: 1 45 46 design 47 api 48 guide 49 upgrading 50 51 52Downloads 53--------- 54 55libuv can be downloaded from `here <https://dist.libuv.org/dist/>`_. 56 57 58Installation 59------------ 60 61Installation instructions can be found in `the README <https://github.com/libuv/libuv/blob/master/README.md>`_. 62 63
