From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 09:09:12 EDT
Adrian Ulrich:
> James:
>
> > Some final thoughts on epoll. Unfortunately, the latest distro of
> > Slackware (11) is in the same boat...no epoll support in glibc.
>
> This is not true. Slackware 11 has epoll support while running a 2.6
> kernel.
>
> Libc used with Linux 2.6:
> # strings /lib/tls/libc.so.6 |grep -i epoll |grep fail
>
> Libc used with Linux 2.4:
> # strings /lib/libc.so.6 |grep -i epoll |grep fail
> warning: epoll_create is not implemented and will always fail
> warning: epoll_ctl is not implemented and will always fail
> warning: epoll_wait is not implemented and will always fail
This is a reasonable solution.
It means that people may see errors when they switch from the 2.6
environment to the 2.4 one, but that is something I can live with.
Wietse
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