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On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Btw, I notice epoll never reports POLLNVAL.  Is that correct?

Yep, epoll does not allow you to push an invalid/unopen file descriptor 
inside the set. So you get an EBADF from epoll_ctl().



- Davide