devel/epoll-shim 0.0.20240608 OpenBSD

small epoll implementation using kqueue

System: OpenBSD
Repository: OpenBSD ports
Maintainer: The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories: devel

Description

This is a small library that implements epoll on top of kqueue. It has been successfully used on FreeBSD to port libinput, libevdev, Wayland and more. It may be useful for porting other software that uses epoll or some other features (e.g. timerfd).

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add epoll-shim

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/epoll-shim && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["devel/epoll-shim"]
  u0["comms/readsb"] --> me
  u1["graphics/glfw"] --> me
  u2["multimedia/libcamera"] --> me
  u3["multimedia/pipewire/pipewire"] --> me
  u4["net/dleyna"] --> me
  u5["wayland/dmenu-wayland"] --> me
  u6["wayland/fnott"] --> me
  u7["wayland/foot"] --> me
  umore(["15 more"]) -.-> me
  me --> d0["devel/cmake/core"]
  me --> d1["devel/ninja"]
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this