Re: epoll in RHAS3

> I need the epoll function to install Domino on RHAS3 (no, we cannot use
> RHAS 4 :)
> But there is a big problem:
> 
> glibc have the support (
> [root@pacman i686]# nm -D /lib/libc.so.6 | grep epoll
> 000e0f10 T epoll_create
> 000e0f50 T epoll_ctl
> 000e0fa0 T epoll_wait )
> 
> 
> there is the man page (man epoll), the headers <sys/epoll.h>
> but no support in the kernel (there is only a patch for S390):
> 
> i try to make a patch for the current kernel (2.4.21-40.EL i686) without
> success
> (the kernel is heavy patched, with some 2.6 code inside).
> 
> So, my question:
> 
> Why a patch for s390 and not for i386 ?

IBM donated the code for s390 epoll on 2.4, they needed it. (To run Domino 
on 2.4-s390). No, I'm not 100% sure about that...

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  Jussi

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