Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:40:08 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Verify This. Message-ID: <199711180640.BAA02513@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117203627.178A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at "Nov 17, 97 08:39:01 pm"
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Jamil J. Weatherbee said: > > > Would I be correct to say that buffered I/O is necessarily blocking. > In other words I noticed that FNONBLOCK flags cannot? be looked at in a > strategy routine. Either the block read returns something or it returns > an error, or it times out and returns an error. There is no way to look @ > fflags though from a strategy routine, correct? > I think that you are right, but our new AIO code (does/will) support the POSIX.4 (or POSIX.1b) features. I have better implemented code than in -current locally, but will not commit it until it is done. It also doesn't work with SMP yet. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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