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+/* This software was written by Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>
+   It is considered beerware. Prost. Skol. Cheers or whatever.
+
+   $id$ */
+
+#ifndef OT_EVENT_H__
+#define OT_EVENT_H__
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/* Which descriptors have become readable or writable, asked of whichever
+   mechanism the kernel offers. The generation a descriptor was registered
+   with is handed back with every event, so a caller can tell an event for
+   the connection it is holding from one for a connection that has since been
+   closed and had its number reused. */
+
+enum { EVENT_READ = 1, EVENT_WRITE = 2 };
+
+typedef struct {
+  int      fd;
+  uint32_t generation;
+  int      what;
+} ot_event;
+
+int  event_init(void);
+void event_deinit(void);
+
+int  event_add(int fd, int what, uint32_t generation);
+int  event_modify(int fd, int what, uint32_t generation);
+int  event_del(int fd);
+
+/* Waits at most timeout_ms, or indefinitely when that is negative, and fills
+   out with up to max ready descriptors. Returns how many, or -1. */
+int  event_wait(ot_event *out, int max, int timeout_ms);
+
+/* Which mechanism was compiled in, for the version string */
+const char *event_mechanism(void);
+
+#endif