[rsyslog] Is '--enable-unlimited-select' in 5.5.1 considered usable?

[Ryan Lynch]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:36, Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
>> this mechanism is intended to provide for higher number of open files
>> and network connections in branches that do not support epoll() (it is
>> present in v4-devel, can be backported to v3 with ease). It is
>> obsoleted
>> in the most recent v5 builds.
>
> good point: it is not really obsoleted for *all* sources (unfortunately). So
> far, I have only moved imudp and the plain tcp netstream driver to epoll. The
> others use your patch, if enabled. Also, on systems where epoll is not
> available, the patch is included for plain tcp as well (I will keep the
> select() code because it is more portable, but disable it if I find epoll).

So, if I understand you, correctly, epoll() is not supported for RELP,
GSSAPI, and/or TLS connections? Do you plan to support epoll() for
those types of connections, in the future?

-Ryan