Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 16:46:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: drevil@warpcore.org Subject: Re: Assembly Syscall Question Message-ID: <20030802.164615.60951780.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200308022214.h72MEgrE015449@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20030731201227.28952.qmail@neuroflux.com> <1059859111.1532.0.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <200308022214.h72MEgrE015449@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
: Additionally, the mechanism can
: be extended to support chained system calls (i.e. issue several system
: calls at once), and transactional sequences.
VMS has done this for a long time. :-) All of their system calls were
asynchronous. The synchronous versions are done in userland by
calling async version plus wait.
Warner
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