[zeromq-dev] disabling epoll()

[Martin Lucina]

Martin,

sustrik at 250bpm.com said:
> > I found some comments about how zmq will use epoll "when available", which
> > makes me hopeful their is some configure switch to turn it off. Or is this
> > a lost cause?
> 
> Just define ZMQ_FORCE_POLL or ZMQ_FORCE_SELECT macro, depending on what 
> polling system is available.
> 
> 0MQ devs: Wouldn't it be better if we checked for the availability of 
> different polling mechanisms during the configure phase?

Not possible. configure can only determine what your target C library is,
it knows nothing about your target kernel.

If there is enough demand I guess I can add a --with-poll=select /
--with-poll=poll option or similar to configure but all that would do is 
let you do what you can already do now with -DZMQ_FORCE_XXX.

In any case, Linux kernel 2.4.x is ancient so this is really a very special
case.

-mato