library to give python access to linux's more lower level features
Project description
Butter is a library to integrate some of linux’s low level features into python eg signalfd, eventfd and timerfd. most of these functions are handy if you are looking into creating non-blocking servers, anything using select/poll and derivatives or writing server code
Design
where posible access to the raw calls has been made avalible as well as providing a file like object that ahs been extended (hereby refered to as an “event like” object. steps have been taken to preserve the current file like api calling conventions however be warned that doing partial reads using obj.read may cause issues for eventlike objects that work with constant sizes and as such the event functions should be called instead
Event-like objects
eventlike objects have been extended in the following way: getevent() -> event getevents(count=1) -> [event, …..]
