Hi, yesterday I figured out why EFL stopped working suddenly several (too many) months ago: <sys/epoll.h> was added and one source started using silently epoll in the main loop.
But epoll in illumos does not implement the same behaviour as in Linux: https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/smartosman/public/man5/epoll.5.html and in this particular case EFL relies on a peculiarity of Linux epoll: on illumos this produces a deadlock. The "fix" was to avoid using automatically epoll if <sys/epoll.h> is present on the system. This led me to think about freezes in Xorg 1.19 during testing: they are also caused by epoll and after trying to confirm it, I noticed that Jonathan Perkin committed to pkgsrc to work around the same issue. It is likely that other software (libevent?) will exhibit the same feature, so beware camembert! Kind regards, Aurelien -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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