From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 1 22:08:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA03130 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03124 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06630; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:06:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd006569; Mon Dec 1 23:06:50 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16270; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:59:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712020559.WAA16270@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FYI: usage of new AIO calls To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 05:59:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, toor@dyson.iquest.net, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Dec 1, 97 06:06:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 2) Why did you define your own interface instead of using the > > SunOS/Solaris/SVR4/SCO interface: > > As I recall from previous messages, this AIO interface is written to > Posix. The rest of your message should probably be addressed to parties > at Posix on why and how they invented stuff. Consider it done. As Julian pointed out to me, the name spaces are non-colliding, so there's still some hope of an aioread/aiowrite/aiowait/aiocancel, so we can have the defacto standard interfaces as well as the POSIX "we are a standards body, and Microsoft should bow to our authority" ``standards''. Why don't they add same-function-but-incompatible interfaces for all of the things in Win332 and not in UNIX while they are at it so we can be assured that the situation is truly hopeless... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.