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EPOLL_CREATE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual EPOLL_CREATE(2)
epoll_create, epoll_create1 - open an epoll file descriptor
#include <sys/epoll.h>
int epoll_create(int size);
int epoll_create1(int flags);
epoll_create() creates a new epoll(7) instance. Since Linux
2.6.8, the size argument is ignored, but must be greater than
zero; see NOTES.
epoll_create() returns a file descriptor referring to the new
epoll instance. This file descriptor is used for all the
subsequent calls to the epoll interface. When no longer
required, the file descriptor returned by epoll_create() should
be closed by using close(2). When all file descriptors referring
to an epoll instance have been closed, the kernel destroys the
instance and releases the associated resources for reuse.
epoll_create1()
If flags is 0, then, other than the fact that the obsolete size
argument is dropped, epoll_create1() is the same as
epoll_create(). The following value can be included in flags to
obtain different behavior:
EPOLL_CLOEXEC
Set the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file
descriptor. See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in
open(2) for reasons why this may be useful.
On success, these system calls return a file descriptor (a
nonnegative integer). On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set
to indicate the error.
EINVAL size is not positive.
EINVAL (epoll_create1()) Invalid value specified in flags.
EMFILE The per-user limit on the number of epoll instances
imposed by /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances was
encountered. See epoll(7) for further details.
EMFILE The per-process limit on the number of open file
descriptors has been reached.
ENFILE The system-wide limit on the total number of open files
has been reached.
ENOMEM There was insufficient memory to create the kernel object.
epoll_create() was added to the kernel in version 2.6. Library
support is provided in glibc starting with version 2.3.2.
epoll_create1() was added to the kernel in version 2.6.27.
Library support is provided in glibc starting with version 2.9.
epoll_create() and epoll_create1() are Linux-specific.
In the initial epoll_create() implementation, the size argument
informed the kernel of the number of file descriptors that the
caller expected to add to the epoll instance. The kernel used
this information as a hint for the amount of space to initially
allocate in internal data structures describing events. (If
necessary, the kernel would allocate more space if the caller's
usage exceeded the hint given in size.) Nowadays, this hint is
no longer required (the kernel dynamically sizes the required
data structures without needing the hint), but size must still be
greater than zero, in order to ensure backward compatibility when
new epoll applications are run on older kernels.
close(2), epoll_ctl(2), epoll_wait(2), epoll(7)
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Linux 2021-03-22 EPOLL_CREATE(2)
Pages that refer to this page: epoll_ctl(2), epoll_wait(2), kcmp(2), syscalls(2), proc(5), epoll(7)
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