On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:05:21 +0000 nia <n...@netbsd.org> wrote: > 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?)
Then I'm in favor of renaming the header until such time we feel the interface is 100% compatible.
