+ static int DispatchEvents();
+
+ /** Dispatch trial reads and writes. This causes the actual socket I/O
+ * to happen when writes have been pre-buffered.
+ */
+ static void DispatchTrialWrites();
+
+ /** Returns true if the file descriptors in the given event handler are
+ * within sensible ranges which can be handled by the socket engine.
+ */
+ static bool BoundsCheckFd(EventHandler* eh);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets accept(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @param addr The client IP address and port
+ * @param addrlen The size of the sockaddr parameter.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int Accept(EventHandler* fd, sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);
+
+ /** Close the underlying fd of an event handler, remove it from the socket engine and set the fd to -1.
+ * @param eh The EventHandler to close.
+ * @return 0 on success, a negative value on error
+ */
+ static int Close(EventHandler* eh);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets close(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int Close(int fd);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets send(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @param buf The buffer in which the data that is sent is stored.
+ * @param len The size of the buffer.
+ * @param flags A flag value that controls the sending of the data.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int Send(EventHandler* fd, const void *buf, size_t len, int flags);
+
+ /** Abstraction for vector write function writev().
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd EventHandler to send data with
+ * @param iov Array of IOVectors containing the buffers to send and their lengths in the platform's
+ * native format.
+ * @param count Number of elements in iov.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int WriteV(EventHandler* fd, const IOVector* iov, int count);
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+ /** Abstraction for vector write function writev() that accepts a POSIX format iovec.
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd EventHandler to send data with
+ * @param iov Array of iovecs containing the buffers to send and their lengths in POSIX format.
+ * @param count Number of elements in iov.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int WriteV(EventHandler* fd, const iovec* iov, int count);
+#endif
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets recv(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @param buf The buffer in which the data that is read is stored.
+ * @param len The size of the buffer.
+ * @param flags A flag value that controls the reception of the data.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int Recv(EventHandler* fd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets recvfrom(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @param buf The buffer in which the data that is read is stored.
+ * @param len The size of the buffer.
+ * @param flags A flag value that controls the reception of the data.
+ * @param from The remote IP address and port.
+ * @param fromlen The size of the from parameter.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ static int RecvFrom(EventHandler* fd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags, sockaddr *from, socklen_t *fromlen);