Casey Marshall wrote:
Here is a patch to implement a Selector using the epoll_wait call on
Linux, the preferred event notification facility in the 2.6 series kernels.
This seems to test OK, so I'll probably just commit this soon. It
compiles OK on systems that do and don't have epoll, and on Linux the
Mauve tests for Selector pass.
I have not tested the patch, but am afraid that it may fail on linux
systems without epoll support (2.4.x kernels I think lack epoll). I am
running glibc-2.3.3 which has sys/epoll.h but I think that the epoll
syscalls may fail at runtime with ENOSYS.
Also I am running gcj/libgcj cross compiler and do not know how this
patch will interact with libgcj.
Well those are my concerns. I guess if things get broken by this we can
add a configure switch to manually disable it.
David Daney.
