From: James Lay (jlayslave-tothe-box.net)
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 08:17:07 CDT

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On Wed, 2 May 2007 09:09:12 -0400 (EDT)
wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:

> Adrian Ulrich:
> > James:
> >
> > > Some final thoughts on epoll. Unfortunately, the latest distro of
> > > Slackware (11) is in the same boat...no epoll support in glibc.
> >
> > This is not true. Slackware 11 has epoll support while running a 2.6
> > kernel.
> >
> > Libc used with Linux 2.6:
> > # strings /lib/tls/libc.so.6 |grep -i epoll |grep fail
> >
> > Libc used with Linux 2.4:
> > # strings /lib/libc.so.6 |grep -i epoll |grep fail
> > warning: epoll_create is not implemented and will always fail
> > warning: epoll_ctl is not implemented and will always fail
> > warning: epoll_wait is not implemented and will always fail
>
> This is a reasonable solution.
>
> It means that people may see errors when they switch from the 2.6
> environment to the 2.4 one, but that is something I can live with.
>
> Wietse
>

Ok...so here's what I have:
uname -a
Linux testbox 2.6.20.6-smp #2 SMP Sat Apr 7 17:13:59 MDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/slackware-version:
Slackware 11.0.0

ls glibc* /var/log/packages:
glibc-2.3.6-i486-6
glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-6
glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-6
glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-6
glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-6

gcc --version:
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

make &> make.log | grep epoll | sort -u:
/home/jlay/postfix-2.4.1/src/util/events.c:550: warning: warning: epoll_create is not implemented and will always fail
/home/jlay/postfix-2.4.1/src/util/events.c:678: warning: warning: epoll_ctl is not implemented and will always fail
/home/jlay/postfix-2.4.1/src/util/events.c:986: warning: warning: epoll_wait is not implemented and will always fail

Can I safely ignore these and install/run postfix or no? Thanks again
for the help.

James

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