Epoll is fundamentally broken 1/2 — Idea of the dayIn previous articles we talked about: The history of the Select(2) syscall Select(2) being fundamentally broken This time we'll focus on Linux's select(2) successor - the epoll(2) I/O multiplexing syscall. Epoll is relatively young. It was created by Davide Libenzi in 2002. For comparison: Windows did IOCP in 1994 and FreeBSD's kqueue was introduced in July 2000. Unfortunately, even though epoll i
