--- libev/ev_epoll.c 2009/11/24 06:37:23 1.49 +++ libev/ev_epoll.c 2010/03/23 23:45:12 1.50 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * libev epoll fd activity backend * - * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann + * Copyright (c) 2007,2008,2009,2010 Marc Alexander Lehmann * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica- @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ * c) the inability to handle fork or file descriptors (think dup) * limits the applicability over poll, so this is not a generic * poll replacement. + * d) epoll doesn't work the same as select with many file descriptors + * (such as files). while not critical, no other advanced interface + * seems to share this (rather non-unixy) limitation. + * e) epoll claims to be embeddable, but in practise you never get + * a ready event for the epoll fd. * * lots of "weird code" and complication handling in this file is due * to these design problems with epoll, as we try very hard to avoid