libevent-dev | Development libraries, header files and docs for libevent | Mehr ...
Contains the header files, documentation, examples and static libraries for use in developing applications that use the libevent library. . The libevent library is an asynchronous event notification library that provides a mechanish to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.
libevent1 | An asynchronous event notification library | Mehr ...
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. . libevent is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event driven network servers. Currently, libevent supports kqueue(2) and select(2).