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Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
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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?

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Alfred Perlstein