The best replacement for epoll is poll.

The best alternatives to epoll are rated as following:
★★★★★  poll
★★★  libevent
★★★  aio
★★★  kqueue
★★  iocp
★★  select
★  inotify
★  io completion ports
★  poll linux
★  select linux

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