id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 7012 "do_epoll_create failes with 'epoll: Function not supported""." Oleg Grunin chris_kohlhoff "The relevant code: #if defined(EPOLL_CLOEXEC) int fd = epoll_create1(EPOLL_CLOEXEC); #else // defined(EPOLL_CLOEXEC) int fd = -1; errno = EINVAL; #endif // defined(EPOLL_CLOEXEC) if (fd == -1 && errno == EINVAL) { fd = epoll_create(epoll_size); .... with glibc 2.13 EPOLL_CLOEXEC is always defined but epoll_create1 may return ENOSYS which causes the code below to fall though. The proposed patch is attached " Bugs closed To Be Determined asio Boost 1.49.0 Problem fixed