On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Mark Hamblin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have kind of a newbie question. I have a compiled version of 2.5.47 and I
> can boot it up to runlevel 3 with the loopback network interface (i.e.,
> 127.0.0.1) working. In this configuration I can use the old select () and
> poll () system calls, so I think I should be able to at least try out
> sys_epoll_....
>
> I tried including /usr/src/linux-2.5.47/include/linux/eventpoll.h, but that
> doesn't get me the declarations I need for my testing.
>
> I looked for epoll.h, as referenced in the examples on your web page, but it
> is not part of your patch.
>
> So then I just put in a dummy "extern int epoll_create (int);", which got me
> through the compiling stage, but it still failed to link. Is there some
> simple step(s) I can take (to update what libraries I'm linking?) so I can
> try to play around with this in user space?
Hi Mark,
you need the user space library ( epoll_lib ) :
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html#sys_epoll
- Davide
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