developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
file handles. It is essentially a really fancy front end to the select
system call. In addition to maintaining the select loop, it buffers all
input and output to/from the file handles. It can also accept incoming
connections on one or more listen sockets.