Added CONFORMING TO section mentioning FreeBSD kqueue and Solaris /dev/poll.

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Michael Kerrisk 2006-06-05 10:59:50 +00:00
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@ -352,6 +352,13 @@ data structure as removed and link it to a cleanup list. If you find another
event for fd 13 in your batch processing, you will discover the fd had been
previously removed and there will be no confusion.
.SH CONFORMING TO
The epoll API is Linux specific.
Some other systems provide similar
mechanisms, e.g., FreeBSD has
.IR kqueue ,
and Solaris has
.IR /dev/poll .
.SH VERSIONS
.BR epoll (7)
is a new API introduced in Linux kernel 2.5.44.
Its interface should be finalized in Linux kernel 2.5.66.