This is the new networking layer for Node. Its purpose is to abstract IOCP on windows and libev on Unix systems. We intend to eventually contain all platform differences in this library. http://nodejs.org/ (This was previously called liboio) ## Supported Platforms Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows XP sp2. It can be built with either Visual Studio or MinGW. Linux 2.6 and MacOS using the GCC toolchain. Solaris 121 and later using GCC toolchain. ## Design The goal of this library is to provide high-concurrency high-performance I/O on all operating systems. This is a large undertaking. Some of the API decisions may seem arbitrary but are actually borne out of various specific platform issues. ## uv_read_start(), uv_read_stop() Originally we wanted to provide a asynchronous read function that was similar to WSARecv().