Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:13:51 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather. |
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Hi,
In article <074e01bf8612$96a062d0$161b10d4@intra.virus.ru>, "Peter Zaitsev" <pz@spylog.ru> writes:
>> Those are not syscalls - they're part of glibc. The libc manual >> documents those functions.
> Well in this case as I understand this will not help much to increase > perfomance by reordering requests as glibc will probably just map it into > standart read/write sequence. That's a pity:(
No, glibc will use threads transparently to execute the IOs asynchronously to the calling process.
--Stephen
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