[Solved] ANSI C compatible event loop

Question

You cannot have any strictly ANSI compatible event loop on Linux, because the purpose of an event loop is to multiplex cleverly several inputs; on Linux to do that multiplexing, you have to call some syscalls like poll(2), pselect(2) or friends, and all these syscalls are not standardized in ANSI C (or ISO C99, or ISO C2011), but just in Posix.

Accepted Answer

You cannot have any strictly ANSI compatible event loop on Linux, because the purpose of an event loop is to multiplex cleverly several inputs; on Linux to do that multiplexing, you have to call some syscalls like poll(2), pselect(2) or friends, and all these syscalls are not standardized in ANSI C (or ISO C99, or ISO C2011), but just in Posix.