Libuv

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libuv
Stable release
1.51.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 25 April 2025;7 months ago (25 April 2025)
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Linux, Android, Windows and OS X/Darwin, [2] FreeBSD, OpenBSD
Type I/O abstraction library
License MIT
Website libuv.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

libuv is a multi-platform C library that provides support for asynchronous I/O based on event loops. It supports epoll(4), kqueue(2), Windows IOCP, Solaris event ports and Linux io_uring. It is primarily designed for use in Node.js but is also used by other software projects. [3] It was originally an abstraction around libev or Windows IOCP, as libev does not support IOCP. In node-v0.9.0's version of libuv, the dependency on libev was removed. [4]

Contents

Features

From: [2]

Origin of the name

According to libuv developer Ben Noordhuis, the name libuv originally had no specific meaning, but as people kept asking about it, they made something up. They came up with Unicorn Velociraptor, which became the logo of the library. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release v1.51.0: 2025.04.25, Version 1.51.0 (Stable) · libuv/libuv" . Retrieved 26 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 "The libuv project page and source code". GitHub. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Projects that use libuv". libuv GitHub project page. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  4. ↑ An introduction to libuv
  5. ↑ "What does UV stand for in libuv?". groups.google.com. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
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