This one time, at band camp, Luigi Gangitano said: > severity 377697 important > thanks > > [ I'm taking this to debian-devel seeking for broader consensus ] > > Latest versions of squid (2.6.x and 3.0.x) support the epoll() > function that is provided by 2.6 kernels. This speeds up seek > operations on disk and thus squid performance, but is not supported > by older 2.4.x kernels. > > Since this is a compile time choice and kernel 2.4.27 is still in the > archive we have the following options: > > 1. drop epoll() support > 2. build multiple versions of squid (with and w/o epoll()) > 3. drop support for older kernels (will etch release with a 2.4 > default kernel?) 4. Make it a runtime startup decision. More work to implement, but for things like this, it seems like a reaonably sane choice. Probably still #ifdef'ed to only bother checking on linux, but still. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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