On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 04:27:32AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > > > On Jul 31, 2023, at 1:38 AM, nia <n...@netbsd.org> wrote: > > > > Hey, I regret that epoll was committed without further discussion with > > pkgsrc developers. We have a lot of experience with this already > > (illumos/SmartOS exposes a compatibility epoll) and the situation is > > not entirely great and requires lots of workarounds. > > What’s even worse … I think our epoll() emulation isn’t 100% compatible w/ > Linux’s. It wouldn’t bother me so much if it were, but I’m pretty sure it’s > not. > > (IIRC, epoll descriptors are inherited across fork, and if ours is emulated > with kqueue under the covers, then that can’t work…) > > -- thorpej >
Oops. Then it definitely shouldn't be such a public interface...
