Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:25:56 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux epoll(7) patch Message-ID: <20130805152556.GA37810@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <51FFC31D.3080304@mu.org> References: <51FF7211.6020909@rawbw.com> <51FFC31D.3080304@mu.org>
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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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