[Pvfs2-developers] the epoll()-by-default experiment is a bust

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:05:23PM -0500, Rob Ross wrote:
> why don't we add a configure test that executes code to see if we get 
> ENOSYS?

that might be a good-enough solution.  It leaves two issues:

- execution-based tests break cross compiling
- Pete didn't like that pvfs2 libraries compiled on 2.6 systems were
  not portable to 2.4 

For the former, we can just never use epoll if we are cross compiling

For the later, people in pw's situation can configure with
--disable-epoll

Fair enough?

==rob

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