From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 26 12:21:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17588 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.zeus.leitch.com (gateway.zeus.leitch.com [205.210.38.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17579 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tap.zeus.leitch.com (0@tap.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.60.10]) by gateway.zeus.leitch.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA07501 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:40:46 -0400 Received: from ale.zeus.leitch.com (0@ale.zeus.leitch.com [204.187.61.65]) by tap.zeus.leitch.com (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04487 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:22:01 -0400 From: Dave Chapeskie Received: (dchapes@localhost) by ale.zeus.leitch.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA01514 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:22:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199607261922.PAA01514@ale.zeus.leitch.com> Subject: Asynchronous IO - Posix AIO To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:22:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have need of an AIO subsystem and have been thinking about how I might do a partial Posix AIO implementation under FreeBSD. Has anyone else given this any thoughts? Would this best be done via a user side library, via new system calls, via a mix of both, etc. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. [Please cc me directly if you reply to this mailing list as I often miss things on the mailing list] -- Dave Chapeskie Leitch Technology International Inc. Email: dchapes@zeus.leitch.com