Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:10:00 -0500 (EST) | From | yuri mironoff <> | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> Since the guts of NT are basically VMS warmed over (hmmm, that would make > it RSX11M mk III), "asynchronous I/O" probably means the ability to > request that the kernel start an I/O and send a signal when it is > complete. Meanwhile the user process goes on doing other stuff. > Traditionally Unix-like systems do this by forking. Linux can do better > than that, with threads. (VMS I/O forking is a special case of > multithreading.) So probably the only thing that is missing is some > syntactic sugar to package the I/O thread(s) conveniently. > > Did I get it right? >
Not quite, the returning AST under VMS interrupts the "parent" process at a previously provided handler function. I'm not sure thats possible under the current thread inplementations.
Y.
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