From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 13 13:57:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5899C155EE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09400; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA40676; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909132057.NAA40676@vashon.polstra.com> To: dot@dotat.at Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. In-Reply-To: References: <199909091418.QAA05520@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Tony Finch wrote: > > Are there any standard APIs for doing file meta-operations > asynchronously? (open, close, creat, link, unlink, etc.) I only know of one way to do that. Hand the operation off to a separate process, using the FD-passing feature of Unix domain sockets to send the file descriptor back and forth. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message