2009/7/16 Kazu Yamamoto <kazu@iij.ad.jp>

> I have a standalone (i.e. not integrated into the RTS yet) proof of concept
> working using kqueue. However, to be portable we still need to fall back to
> select on systems that don't support anything better. This implies that if you
> want to write portable code you still suffer from this limit.

If portability is important, how about falling back to poll(), not
epoll()?

We could provide poll as a possible backend but I don't think it's available on Windows.