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Does OS X not support epoll function?

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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

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Mac OS X doesn't support epoll, but it does support kqueue which is very similar.

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