wineserver epoll

[Alexandre Julliard]

Shachar Shemesh <wine-patches at shemesh.biz> writes:

> After much talk, the patch seems ready for commit. Since there are many
> systems with slightly older glibc that have the header but do not have
> the implementation in glibc, or that have a stub implementation that is
> guaranteed to fail, we are calling the kernel functions directly. This
> also allows compiling on older systems than the code actually ships to.
>
> Accordingly, the autoconf checks for epoll_create in glibc were dropped.

That's wrong; if the libc function exists you should use it, direct
system calls should only be used as a fallback. And when using system
calls you must not depend on the libc header, you have to define the
structures yourself.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org