Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:16:18 -0800 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: aio |
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"David S. Miller" wrote: > If AIO was so relevant+sexy we'd be having threads of discussion about > the AIO implementation instead of threads about how relevant it is or > is not for the general populace. Wouldn't you concur? :-) > > The people doing Java server applets are such a small fraction of the > Linux user community.
People writing code for NT/Win2K/WinXP are being channelled into using AIO because that's the way to do things there (NT doesn't really support nonblocking I/O). Thus another valid economic reason AIO is important is to make it easier to port code from NT. I have received requests from NT folks for things like aio_recvfrom() (and have passed them on to Ben), so I'm not just guessing here.
As should be clear from my c10k page, I love nonblocking I/O, but I firmly believe that some form of AIO is vital.
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