Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 09:53:37 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: John Plevyak <jplevyak@inktomi.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lockf and kernel threads Message-ID: <199903051753.JAA81858@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Mar 1999 08:06:18 PST." <19990305080618.B22589@tsdev.inktomi.com>
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> I am missing context on this, however if it was a mechanism for > generalized async calls w/o signals/polling but 'wait for one > of N events' I am interested. Yes that is what Terry is reffering to and some like to think about it as old fashion and not to be use technology . A system which widely use Terry's "async call gate" is DEC's VMS QIO mechanism which allow applications to issue async calls for system calls . I once help developed an OSI FTAM file server to handle multiple file requests all in one process. Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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