example">Example</a>
          </h6>
<p>
            This function is intended to allow the encapsulation of arbitrary non-blocking
            system calls as asynchronous operations, in a way that is transparent
            to the user of the socket object. The following example illustrates how
            Linux's <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">sendfile</span></code> system
            call might be encapsulated:
          </p>
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