There is a coarse description on the "features" page of how blocking operations in general are handled. The same principle applies to all kinds of blocking oper

There is a coarse description on the "features" page of how blocking operations in general are handled. The same principle applies to all kinds of blocking operations (waiting for a mutex lock, sleeping, waiting for data on a pipe etc.). http://vibed.org/features#fibers http://vibed.org/features#fibers It still doesn't go into full detail, though, and a dedicated article would probably be worthwhile to write.