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@:
> > 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
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