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EPOLL_CREATE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON

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 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.

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 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.

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 3.69 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man−pages/.

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