Applied patch #1657 epoll and kqueue wrappers for the select module
The patch adds wrappers for the Linux epoll syscalls and the BSD kqueue syscalls. Thanks to Thomas Herve and the Twisted people for their support and help.
TODO: Finish documentation documentation
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 99f5cb0..aa3e4d9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5419,13 +5419,15 @@
+
+
for ac_header in asm/types.h conio.h curses.h direct.h dlfcn.h errno.h \
fcntl.h grp.h \
io.h langinfo.h libintl.h ncurses.h poll.h process.h pthread.h \
shadow.h signal.h stdint.h stropts.h termios.h thread.h \
unistd.h utime.h \
-sys/audioio.h sys/bsdtty.h sys/file.h sys/loadavg.h sys/lock.h sys/mkdev.h \
-sys/modem.h \
+sys/audioio.h sys/bsdtty.h sys/epoll.h sys/event.h sys/file.h sys/loadavg.h \
+sys/lock.h sys/mkdev.h sys/modem.h \
sys/param.h sys/poll.h sys/select.h sys/socket.h sys/statvfs.h sys/stat.h \
sys/time.h \
sys/times.h sys/types.h sys/un.h sys/utsname.h sys/wait.h pty.h libutil.h \
@@ -15917,7 +15919,111 @@
fi
rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for epoll" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for epoll... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h. */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h. */
+#include <sys/epoll.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+void *x=epoll_create
+ ;
+ return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+rm -f conftest.$ac_objext
+if { (ac_try="$ac_compile"
+case "(($ac_try" in
+ *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
+ *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
+esac
+eval "echo \"\$as_me:$LINENO: $ac_try_echo\"") >&5
+ (eval "$ac_compile") 2>conftest.er1
+ ac_status=$?
+ grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
+ rm -f conftest.er1
+ cat conftest.err >&5
+ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+ (exit $ac_status); } && {
+ test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag" ||
+ test ! -s conftest.err
+ } && test -s conftest.$ac_objext; then
+cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define HAVE_EPOLL 1
+_ACEOF
+
+ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; }
+else
+ echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
+
+fi
+
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for kqueue" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for kqueue... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h. */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h. */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/event.h>
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+int x=kqueue()
+ ;
+ return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+rm -f conftest.$ac_objext
+if { (ac_try="$ac_compile"
+case "(($ac_try" in
+ *\"* | *\`* | *\\*) ac_try_echo=\$ac_try;;
+ *) ac_try_echo=$ac_try;;
+esac
+eval "echo \"\$as_me:$LINENO: $ac_try_echo\"") >&5
+ (eval "$ac_compile") 2>conftest.er1
+ ac_status=$?
+ grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
+ rm -f conftest.er1
+ cat conftest.err >&5
+ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+ (exit $ac_status); } && {
+ test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag" ||
+ test ! -s conftest.err
+ } && test -s conftest.$ac_objext; then
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define HAVE_KQUEUE 1
+_ACEOF
+
+ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6; }
+else
+ echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6; }
+
+fi
+
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
# On some systems (eg. FreeBSD 5), we would find a definition of the
# functions ctermid_r, setgroups in the library, but no prototype
# (e.g. because we use _XOPEN_SOURCE). See whether we can take their