Re: epoll

Adrian Chadd <adrian@squid-cache.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004, David Nicklay wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I second Henrik's suggestion. The epoll stuff actually works on 2.4
>> kernels with a patch, and almost none of those have the new epoll stuff
>> in glibc.
>>
>> Also, it would be nice if someone could fix the autoconf scripts, so I
>> don't have to do:
>>
>> --disable-select
>> --disable-poll
>> --enable-epoll
>
> yup, this has to do with the order we're checking poll/select/epoll/kqueue.
> Here's my configure.in patch, it seems to do the right thing.
> Give it a shot?

If it's possible at all, I think it would be best if the polling method
detection could be done at startup time. It would make life easier for
those packaging binary distributions.

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