= kgio - kinder, gentler I/O for Ruby

This is a legacy project, do not use it for new projects.  Ruby
2.3 and later should make this obsolete.  kgio provides
non-blocking I/O methods for Ruby without raising exceptions on
EAGAIN and EINPROGRESS.

== Features

* Can avoid expensive exceptions on common EAGAIN/EINPROGRESS errors,
  returning :wait_readable or :wait_writable instead.
  These exceptions got more expensive to hit under Ruby 1.9.2
  (but were fixed in Ruby 1.9.3 and later to 1.9.1 performance levels,
  which were still bad)

* Returns the unwritten portion of the string on partial writes,
  making it ideal for buffering unwritten data.

* May call any method defined to be "kgio_wait_writable" or
  "kgio_wait_readable" methods to allow socket/pipe objects to make custom
  callbacks (such as adding the file descriptor to a poll set and yielding
  the current Fiber).

* Uses {accept4}[http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/accept4.2.html]
  on newer GNU/Linux systems to avoid unnecessary fcntl() calls

* Uses MSG_DONTWAIT on GNU/Linux to further avoid unnecessary fcntl() calls

* Compatible with existing Ruby IO objects and Ruby threading.

== Install

The library consists of a C extension so you'll need a Unix-like system
with a C compiler and Ruby development libraries/headers.
You may install it via RubyGems.org:

  gem install kgio

You can get the latest source via git from the following locations
(these versions may not be stable):

  git://yhbt.net/kgio.git
  git://repo.or.cz/kgio.git (mirror)

You may browse the code from the web and download the latest snapshot
tarballs here:

* https://yhbt.net/kgio.git
* http://repo.or.cz/w/kgio.git (gitweb)

See the HACKING guide on how to contribute and build prerelease gems
from git.

== Contact

All feedback (bug reports, user/development dicussion, patches, pull
requests) go to the mailing list/newsgroup.  See the ISSUES document for
information on the {kgio mailing list}[mailto:kgio-public@yhbt.net]

For the latest on kgio releases, you may check our NEWS page (and
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