eting.html">(a-sync meeting)</a> provides synchronization facilities
for event loops constructed under this module.
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<p>The file watches provided by this module use guile&rsquo;s wrapper for the
select() system call.  This has two consequences.  First, in linux
select() applied to sockets can give rise to spurious wake-ups, which
means that it may be best with sockets to set the socket as
non-blocking using the guile wrapper for the fcntl() system call in
order to prevent a blocking read where it is not