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I've always wondered what Torvalds's answer would be if you asked him if he had the chance to snap his fingers and have the kernel rewritten from scratch what he would change?

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Whatever it is, I hope the answer involves “implement kevent(2) instead of creating epoll(2)”.

Add an 'e' to the creat() call?

Not much scope for that, it's POSIX (and Ken Thompson's "fault" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8390979/)

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