总体来说,libevent有下面一些特点和优势:

  • 事件驱动,高性能; 回调机制
  • 轻量级,专注于网络;
  • 跨平台,支持 Windows、Linux、Mac Os等;
  • 支持多种 I/O多路复用技术, epoll、poll、dev/poll、select 和kqueue 等;
  • 支持 I/O,定时器和信号等事件;

libevent有下面几大部分组成:

  • 事件管理包括各种IO(socket)、定时器、信号等事件,也是libevent应用最广的模块;
  • 缓存管理是指evbuffer功能;
  • DNS是libevent提供的一个异步DNS查询功能;
  • HTTP是libevent的一个轻量级http实现,包括服务器和客户端
#include <stdio.h> 
#include <string.h> 
#include <iostream> 
#include <sys/socket.h>     
#include <netinet/in.h>     
#include <arpa/inet.h>     
#include <netdb.h>
#include <unistd.h>
   
#include <event.h> 
using namespace std; 
   
// 事件base 
struct event_base* base; 
   
// 读事件回调函数 
void onRead(int iCliFd, short iEvent, void *arg) 
{ 
    int iLen; 
    char buf[1500]; 
   
    iLen = recv(iCliFd, buf, 1500, 0); 
   
    if (iLen <= 0) { 
        cout << "Client Close" << endl; 
   
        // 连接结束(=0)或连接错误(<0),将事件删除并释放内存空间 
        struct event *pEvRead = (struct event*)arg; 
        event_del(pEvRead); 
        delete pEvRead; 
   
        close(iCliFd); 
        return; 
    } 
   
    buf[iLen] = 0; 
    cout << "Client Info:" << buf << endl; 
} 
   
// 连接请求事件回调函数 
void onAccept(int iSvrFd, short iEvent, void *arg) 
{ 
    int iCliFd; 
    struct sockaddr_in sCliAddr; 
   
    socklen_t iSinSize = sizeof(sCliAddr); 
    iCliFd = accept(iSvrFd, (struct sockaddr*)&sCliAddr, &iSinSize); 
   
    // 连接注册为新事件 (EV_PERSIST为事件触发后不默认删除) 
    struct event *pEvRead = new event; 
    event_set(pEvRead, iCliFd, EV_READ|EV_PERSIST, onRead, pEvRead); 
    event_base_set(base, pEvRead); 
    event_add(pEvRead, NULL); 
} 
   
int main() 
{ 
   
    int iSvrFd;   
    struct sockaddr_in sSvrAddr; 
                 
    memset(&sSvrAddr, 0, sizeof(sSvrAddr));   
    sSvrAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;   
    sSvrAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");     
    sSvrAddr.sin_port = htons(8888);    
                               
    // 创建tcpSocket(iSvrFd),监听本机8888端口   
    iSvrFd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);   
    bind(iSvrFd, (struct sockaddr*)&sSvrAddr, sizeof(sSvrAddr));   
    listen(iSvrFd, 10); 
   
    // 初始化base 
    base = event_base_new(); 
       
    struct event evListen; 
    // 设置事件 
    event_set(&evListen, iSvrFd, EV_READ|EV_PERSIST, onAccept, NULL); 
    // 设置为base事件 
    event_base_set(base, &evListen); 
    // 添加事件 
    event_add(&evListen, NULL); 
       
    // 事件循环 
    event_base_dispatch(base); 
   
    return 0; 
}
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 
use IO::Socket; 

main:
{
    my $host = shift || '127.0.0.1'; 
    my $port = shift || 8888; 
    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp'); 
    $sock or die "no socket :$!"; 
    foreach(1..100) {
        send $sock, "hello libevent" . $_, 0;
        sleep 1;
    }
    close $sock;
}