Does OS X not support epoll function?

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OS X not support epoll function?

up vote3down votefavorite 1	I'm learning to use epoll function. But my OS X, Mountain Lion doesn't have a header file, sys/epoll.h. I'd like to use epoll function on OS X. How Can I use epoll function? osx epoll kqueue shareimprove this question edited Dec 13 '12 at 10:11 cmeerw 5,1801519 asked Dec 13 '12 at 9:08 inherithandle 5691828
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up vote10down voteaccepted	Mac OS X doesn't support epoll, but it does support kqueue which is very similar. shareimprove this answer answered Dec 13 '12 at 10:10 cmeerw 5,1801519
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