Trying to use Kqueue in linux mint debian

Question

I am Trying to use kqueue for doing an event oriented server in c when i compile my code it give me this error

fatal error: sys/event.h: No such file or directory

according to a tutorial that I am following to create the kqueue events that file have to be include I am new to events programming in C

Hi, you should provide more info... code, what have you tried etc. — Eel Lee, Nov 03 '13 at 01:53

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '13 at 02:07

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kqueue is only present in BSD (FreeBSD / OpenBSD) and Darwin (Mac OS X / iOS) kernels. It does not exist in the Linux kernel.

The closest equivalents available on Linux are epoll for asynchronous I/O, and inotify for file system watches.

answered Nov 03 '13 at 02:07

Thanks do you happen to know a link to a good tutorial of epoll – user2948982 Nov 03 '13 at 17:51
Avoid using epoll directly. Use [libevent](http://libevent.org/); it's OS-independent. – Nov 03 '13 at 18:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '13 at 02:06

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kqueue is a BSD feature. you cannot use it on Linux. the equivalent feature on Linux is epoll.

answered Nov 03 '13 at 02:06

Thanks do you happen to know a link to a good tutorial of epoll – user2948982 Nov 03 '13 at 17:52

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '19 at 08:45

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If you want t try kqueue in any platform other than BSD, then https://github.com/mheily/libkqueue library is your way to go!! give this a try.

answered Nov 03 '19 at 08:45

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