Information about the package, ivykis, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ivykis package is designed for, Library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification.
Package Name:
ivykis
Summary:
Library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification
Description:
ivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification. It is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as epoll_create(2), kqueue(2), poll(2), poll(7d) (/dev/poll) and port_create(3C). ivykis was mainly designed for building high-performance network applications, but can be used in any event-driven application that uses poll(2)able file descriptors as its event sources.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.36.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
34 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the ivykis package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ivykis
This command will install ivykis on the server.
yum remove ivykis
This command will un-install ivykis on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ivykis, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ivykis
This command will un-install ivykis on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ivykis when using the -y flag.
yum update ivykis
This command will update ivykis to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ivykis, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ivykis
This command will update ivykis to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ivykis when using the -y flag.
yum info ivykis
This command will show you core information about the ivykis package.
yum deplist ivykis
This command will show you the dependencies for ivykis. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ivykis
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ivykis. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.