On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:37 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:26:04PM +0200, q6Yr7e0o nIJDVMjC wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > can somebody guide me how to write a simple echo server using libevent 2.0? > > I've read into the sources of libevent (especially http.c) because i wanted > > to know how to bind to a socket, accept new connections and read/write async > > to the network. > > > > But there are so many interal functions (like bind_socket bind_socket_ai) > > which i have to copy (?) in order to bind to a socket that i think i got > > something wrong. > > I wouldn't look to http.c for examples; it was originally written for > a much older version of the API, and though it has been updated since > then, there are still a fair number of new interfaces that it isn't > using yet. > > For one example of how to use the 2.0.1-alpha API, you could have a > look at chapter 1 of > http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ . > > That's still a pretty ungainly way to do a server, though. In > 2.0.2-alpha, there will be a new "evconnlistener" API to wrap most of > the busywork of listening for new connections. I've attacked a quick > echo server written with it to this email. [It works for me on Linux; > haven't tested it anywhere else.] > > I hope we can get Libevent 2.0.2-alpha released this week. Until > then, you can use subversion to fetch the latest code from the > repository at > > https://levent.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/levent/trunk/libevent > > yrs,
Thanks for everyone's work on libevent, and also Nick's new libevent-book pages (even I didn't read it yet since I am on some other projects). Personally I'd like to see some more sample code/apps coming with libevent release, instead of books or api docs in details. Code can tell all the truth to a coder and for a lazy coder as me, I like to copy and paste functions to my editor ;-) The samples may have some app frameworks (e.g. show how to fork and re-set event base, multi-thread), and some how-to in details (e.g. how to get connect event with libevent/eventbuffer, how to handle process runs out of number of fd...) Neils/Nick may build a list of samples then users like me could contribute the implement, then other users can use and improve the code. Cheers, Arthur _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
