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This makes libxev work with Zig 0.16. **Fair warning that this is messy.** The goal was to keep libxev working with minimal external API changes. That means we don't play nicely with `std.Io` yet and I'm not 100% sure what the path forward is for that since in many ways libxev is an alternate implementation but std.Io doesn't have full coverage for our functionality so we can't simply switch to it either. In cases wher we need an Io here, I use the global single threaded Io which preserves the Zig 0.15 behavior. Like I said, the goal is to get people who use libxev (including me) upgraded to 0.16, not to fully adapt to the new idioms. Particularly nasty is the large amount of shims we need in `src/posix.zig` and `src/windows.zig` to address removed APIs from Zig.
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This makes libxev work with Zig 0.16.
Fair warning that this is messy. The goal was to keep libxev working with minimal external API changes. That means we don't play nicely with
std.Ioyet and I'm not 100% sure what the path forward is for that since in many ways libxev is an alternate implementation but std.Io doesn't have full coverage for our functionality so we can't simply switch to it either.In cases wher we need an Io here, I use the global single threaded Io which preserves the Zig 0.15 behavior. Like I said, the goal is to get people who use libxev (including me) upgraded to 0.16, not to fully adapt to the new idioms.
Particularly nasty is the large amount of shims we need in
src/posix.zigandsrc/windows.zigto address removed APIs from Zig.