I mean, I don’t think you’re wrong; I think the main reason that people haven’t complained that much about being stuck with epoll is that a lot of this is somew

I mean, I don’t think you’re wrong; I think the main reason that people haven’t complained that much about being stuck with epoll is that a lot of this is somewhat abstracted nowadays. I’ve only used epoll once to play with it, and most of the time when I need nonblocking IO, I use Java NIO or Netty or something. I generally do not care about how pretty the underlying code powering these things is as long as it works and as long as my code is pretty. Granted, that’s not really a good excuse for Linux having a crappy system, just why I think there wasn’t ever a ton of urgency for it.