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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:48:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: user-level asynchronous I/O
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Is there such a thing called "user-level asynchronous i/o" in FreeBSD? I
assume that the aio_read(), aio_write() stuff is kernel-based asynchronous
i/o.  SIGIO is also a kernel stuff. 

Thanks for any enlightment.

-Zhihui



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