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epoll-shim-0.0.20240608

small epoll implementation using kqueue

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Description

This is a small library that implements epoll on top of kqueue. It has been successfully used on FreeBSD to port libinput, libevdev, Wayland and more. It may be useful for porting other software that uses epoll or some other features (e.g. timerfd).

Package information

Ports path
devel/epoll-shim
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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