Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:06:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Jason Murdock <> | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over NT |
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hiya,
sorry about this, but I'm new to the list and kernel coding and such. I was wondering where to get the listings of what the POSIXes standards/directives/"Word Of POSIXs" at? I'd like to be able when some quotes a part of the POSIX code to be able to look it up and see what it is.
thanks,
jason
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Alan Cox 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. > > POSIX.4 covers asynchronous I/O operations. Its implementable by putting > POSIX.4 signals into kernel space and using clone(). clone() is so > fast that doing all the aio stuff in kernel is a lose > >
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