Re: Linux epoll(7) patch

From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:25:56 +0200
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:22:05AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On 8/5/13 2:36 AM, Yuri wrote:
> > There is the patch, suggested by Roman Divacky, implementing Linux 
> > epoll(7) functionality: 
> > http://rys.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/patches/linux_epoll.patch
> >
> > This patch was suggested 5 years ago and was discussed on emulation_at_:
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-March/004409.html 
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-March/004428.html 
> >
> >
> > Discussion stalled back then, and epoll is still unimplemented.
> >
> > Anybody can identify any issues with this patch?
> > Are there any alternatives?
> >
> > Yuri
> The patch is small.  I too am wondering why it's not committed, was 
> there any push back?

iirc the main problem with the patch is that it doesnt work over fork, I never
got to implement that feature.

Nevertheless it looks like the patch is useful even without that feature so 
maybe it should just be commited?

Roman
Received on Mon Aug 05 2013 - 13:35:46 UTC

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