2.6.5 & AMD64 epoll weirdness

[Mihai RUSU]

Hi

I have this little test program:
#include <sys/epoll.h>

int main(void)
{
    int efd;
    struct epoll_event event;
    struct epoll_event events[10];

    efd = epoll_create(100);
    event.data.fd = 0;
    epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLLIN, 0, &event);
    epoll_wait(efd, events, 10, -1);
}

This program runs fine on x86/32bit with 2.6.5 kernel. But on AMD64 it 
does this (strace qoute):

epoll_create(0x64)                      = 3
epoll_ctl(0x3, 0x1, 0, 0x7fbffff860)    = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
epoll_wait(0x3, 0x7fbffff7e0, 0xa, 0xffffffff) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)

This is rather weird because I would expect to have epoll_create() fail 
too (in fact I use this check at runtime, I try epoll_create and if it 
works I presume epoll is functional; I needed this check because glibc 
might have dummy epoll functions which always fail although the program 
compiles fine with it). So do I really need to check all epoll syscalls 
before presuming that epoll works on the current system ? (I would like to 
have epoll_create failing in the case it doesnt supports AMD64).

Thanks!

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