From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 5 14:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6870337B403 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA05596; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:03:56 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:56:57 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jason Evans , "E . B . Dreger" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIO issues... or not? Message-ID: <20011005145657.A40957@johncoop.MSHOME> References: <20011005100340.T76373@canonware.com> <20011005135822.F59854@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20011005135822.F59854@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:58:22 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.0 Lines: 39 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001.10.05 11:58 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jason Evans [011005 11:54] wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:19:58PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > > > > However, there's a rather ominous and non-descriptive warning > > > present: "There are numerous stability issues in the current aio > > > code that make it unsuitable for inclusion on shell boxes." Can > > > anyone please elaborate? Is this admonition outdated? > > > > > > Seen on 4.3-R. > > > > Alan Cox has done a lot of work to make aio stable over the past > year, and > > I'm guessing that it's reasonably stable as of 4.2 or 4.3. That > warning > > can likely be removed. > > Where was the warning (so it can be removed)? > It's in LINT. > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s > technology," > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- jmc MacroHard -- the perfection of form over substance, marketing over performance, and greed over design . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message