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EPOLL_CREATE(2)		   Linux Programmer's Manual	       EPOLL_CREATE(2)

NAME
       epoll_create, epoll_create1 - open an epoll file descriptor

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/epoll.h>

       int epoll_create(int size);
       int epoll_create1(int flags);

DESCRIPTION
       epoll_create()  creates	an  epoll(7) instance.	Since Linux 2.6.8, the
       size argument is ignored, but must be  greater  than  zero;  see	 NOTES
       below.

       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 argu‐
       ment 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 descrip‐
	      tor.  See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in  open(2)  for
	      reasons why this may be useful.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  these  system calls return a nonnegative file descriptor.
       On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       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.

       ENFILE The system limit on the total number  of	open  files  has  been
	      reached.

       ENOMEM There was insufficient memory to create the kernel object.

VERSIONS
       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.

CONFORMING TO
       epoll_create() is Linux-specific.

NOTES
       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 informa‐
       tion as a hint for the amount of space to initially allocate in	inter‐
       nal 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 dynami‐
       cally sizes the required data structures without needing the hint), but
       size  must still be greater than zero, in order to ensure backward com‐
       patibility when new epoll applications are run on older kernels.

SEE ALSO
       close(2), epoll_ctl(2), epoll_wait(2), epoll(7)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2012-04-15		       EPOLL_CREATE(2)
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