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Qualify claim of being drop-in replacement to asyncio

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

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Read the repository README and the opening uvloop documentation, then review the linked Windows and missing-feature issues to confirm the caveats. Update both claims to explain that uvloop is not available on Windows and does not support all built-in asyncio features, including sendfile; done means the documentation no longer overstates drop-in compatibility.

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Description

The readme of this repo as well as the start of the uvloop documentation claims that uvloop is a "drop-in replacement of the built-in asyncio event loop". I know of at least two important caveats to this claim that I think should be mentioned somewhere in the readme/documentation:

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