Event I/O

Event I/O #

Scope #

IO and CPU bound applications
Blocking syscalls problem
Busy waiting
Event-based programming
- Receiving events via signals
- Receiving events via blocking syscalls
Event based APIs:
- timer_create
- timerfd_create
- signalfd
Change detection
- ABA problem
Filesystem events
- inotify API
Asynchronous I/O
- io_uring API (note: advanced, auxiliary topic)
Event multiplexing
- select() API
- event loops

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