On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking at the implementation of apr_pollset_wakeup(), and if I'm reading > this correctly, if APR_FILES_AS_SOCKETS is 0, we only implement funciton for > Windows and OS/2. All other platforms just return APR_ENOTIMPL. > > But. Is there any reason why there couldn't be a generic implementation for > these other platforms, using a socket chasing its own tail on the loopback > interface, or some platform-specific local domain socket (the OS/2 > implementation does this)?
> I realise the platforms that are currently not covered are not exactly major, > but it I also can't think of a reason for this incompleteness. I was looking at this a year ago or so. It does seems like replacing the Windows-isms with the basic socket APIs would be pretty safe/portable.
