Uv-ocaml

OCaml binding for joyent/libuv.

(WARNING: NOT USABLE RIGHT NOW, JUST WAIT FOR A WHILE.)

Uv-OCaml is a OCaml module which provides an interface to libuv. Libuv is a high performance asynchronous networking library, used as the platform layer for NodeJS. Libuv is written and maintained by Joyent Inc. and contributors. It’s built on top of epoll/kequeue/event ports/etc on Unix and IOCP on Windows systems providing a consistent API on top of them.

Uv-OCaml's features

• Full-featured event loop backed by epoll, kqueue, IOCP, event ports.
• Asynchronous TCP and UDP sockets
• Asynchronous DNS resolution
• Asynchronous file and file system operations
• File system events
• ANSI escape code controlled TTY
• IPC with socket sharing, using Unix domain sockets or named pipes (Windows)
• Child processes
• Thread pool
• Signal handling
• High resolution clock
• Threading and synchronization primitives

Dependencies

• findlib
• oUnit2 (optional for tests)

Install

Run, make make install

To compile Tests,

make tests

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, fork the project, make a patch and send a pull request. Have a look at the surrounding code and please, make yours look alike :-)