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I meant under 5.3, we could implement aio as a part of the library and 
have it create per process kernel threads
to go do all the work.. (hiding this from the user)

Igor Sysoev wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>Now that we have real threads, it shuld be possible to write an aio
>>library that is
>> implemented by having a bunch of underlying threads..
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>Do you mean the kernel only threads when the single threaded user process
>has several threads in kernel ? As I understand FreeBSD 4.x already
>has similar AIO implementation.
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>Or do you mean the implementaion by user-level threads like in Solaris ?
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>Igor Sysoev
>http://sysoev.ru/en/
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