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Re: "epollCreate: unsupported operation" on buildd hosts



On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>> Or is it actually so that the libc should map uses of epoll_create1 to
>> epoll_create?  Or do we need to introduce run-time checks as to whether
>> epoll_create1 is available?
>
> There's no way around run-time checks if you want to be safe from this race,
> yeah.  It can be done either in libc or in your code; the former means less
> code duplication but hurts badly any backporting.

Why is the function declared but not implemented?
Seems kinda silly.

Olaf


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