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About this document
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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
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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.