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Date:      Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:36:34 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, alc@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: loadable aio
Message-ID:  <3C2FCF32.5C77105E@mindspring.com>
References:  <200112281848.fBSImKF13265@mass.dis.org>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> > I've done most of the gruntwork of making AIO a loadable system.
> >
> > I'd appreciate some feedback and testing, especially since I know
> > of no programs which use AIO.
> 
> Where's the demand-load of the aio module?  Are you going to trap ENOSYS
> in the libc side of things?

Please, no.

There is so much "goo" around the module loading these days; there
are incursions into "mount" and all sorts of other programs that
should not know about module loading.

Either load it by hand/at startup, or generalize the mechanism by
adding a data page to modules to describe what they provide, and
then present default fault handlers for the classes of services
so that the kernel can do the demand-loading (if necessary).

-- Terry

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