piscisaureus/wepoll

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

wepoll is a small C library that implements the Linux epoll API on Windows, enabling scalable socket event notification. It is distributed as a single source file and header for easy embedding in cross-platform applications.

Use cases

• port Linux epoll-based code to Windows
• poll tens of thousands of sockets efficiently on Windows
• build cross-platform event loops without IOCP
• replace select/WSAPoll in Windows networking code
• embed a scalable socket readiness API in a C/C++ project

When to choose

• you need epoll-compatible socket polling on Windows
• your cross-platform code relies on epoll semantics
• you want a trivially embeddable two-file library

When to avoid

• you need edge-triggered (EPOLLET) mode, which is unsupported
• you need to poll file descriptors or non-socket handles
• you target Windows versions older than Vista
• you prefer native IOCP-based async I/O designs

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

networking concurrency developer-tools networking developer-tools cross-platform windows cpp c epoll sockets event-loop io-completion-ports single-file-library

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