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by chikere232 491 days ago
Often such apis (select/poll/epoll) have an option to wait with a timeout, so if you have a bunch of different timers, you can manage them yourself (e.g. on a heap) and set the timeout to the nearest timer

Of course if you have epoll you probably have timerfd, wich does give you a unified interface, just not as portable