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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC?
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* Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com> [120718 17:20] wrote:
> What practically does aio offer that is not achieved via pthreads other 
> than slightly simpler code?

People expect it to be there.

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