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SubjectRe: Non-blocking read
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:27:09AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > By looking at the code (2.3.6), there seems to be no possibility
> > to do this. Am I wrong or is it not worth the effort (I might
> > disagree) or just impossible?
> >
> > You probably want "filp->f_flags |= O_NONBLOCK"
>
> How does this help? Last time I checked, there is _no_ way of doing
> non-blocking disk IO in the kernel.
>

Yes there is. It is called "asynchronous readahead".

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven


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