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DateWed, 22 Jan 1997 20:07:26 +0000 (GMT)
FromBryn Paul Arnold Jones <>
Subjectasync io (was: Re: Good point of Linux over NT)
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Roger Espel Llima wrote:

> 
> Hmm, clone() is the basis for kernel-threads, which can be used to
> simulate async I/O (and sound like a more modern design), but does Linux
> have a direct equivalent of SunOS/Solaris's aioread() and aiowrite() ?
> That is, a way to queue a read() or a write() and have the call return
> immediately.
> 
> According to Sun's manpages these interfaces look like they're
> Sun-specific, but some POSIX spec gets mentioned in the manpage for
> aio_read (notice the underscore), which isn't "yet implemented on
> Solaris".
> 
> 	Roger

Hmm, looking at the man pages for aioread(3), and aiowrite(3), we could do
this exactly this way.  As it stands, it's a userspace problem in the
libaries so this isn't the place (where is a better place tho ?).

Bryn
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