Gasp!

[John Hall]

I used Async IO on System V in the '87, '88 time frame.  I did it that
way cause I thought it was cool to see if I could keep the tape
spinning.

I can believe Linux is catching up to this, but some ability to do async
IO already existed in the UNIX world.

John Hall
13464 95th Ave NE
Kirkland WA 98034


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of
Adam
> L. Beberg
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:35 PM
> To: fork@xent.com
> Subject: Gasp!
> 
> "Red Hat Linux Advanced Server provides many high end features such
as:
> Support for Asynchronous I/O. Now read I/O no longer needs to stall
your
> application while waiting for completion."
> 
> Could it be? After 20 years without this feature UNIX finally catches
up
> to
> Windows and has I/O that doesnt totally suck for nontrivial apps? No
way!
> 
> OK, so they do it with signals or a flag, which is completely ghetto,
but
> at
> least they are trying. Keep trying guys, you got the idea, but not the
> clue.
> 
> - Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
>   http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
>   beberg@mithral.com