[throw0101d]

> Worth noting that there's an equivalent of epoll on most platforms.

And libevent if you want a portable front-end to all of them:

* https://libevent.org

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libevent

[jen20]

Or libuv:

* https://libuv.org/

[another2another]

Or even libdispatch which I've been using on Linux and MacOSX surprisingly well.