Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:10:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: select/poll on files/dirs ? |
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Merry Christmas to you too, Frank. But I thought select(2) already works on regular files in a predictable manner, i.e. the descriptor sets are "always ready", so it is kind of uninteresting. More interesting is the Asynchronous I/O issue. I remember asking about aio_ support in the kernel and somebody pointing me to some userspace implementation. But I can't understand how can reliable asynchronous I/O (to both regular files and block devices) be implemented in userspace (in HP/UX one has /dev/async for that, in Adabas one has /dev/adabas/async etc etc). So I am still wondering whether asynchronous I/O implementation in the kernel is a thing on TODO list or not.
Regards, Tigran A. Aivazian, http://www.aivazian.demon.co.uk/
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Frank Heldt wrote:
> Hello friends, > > I remember vague that there was a discussion on this subject some > months ago, has anybody looked deeper into it ? > > I think this would give a nice 2.3 project. > > Bye and merry christmas to all of you > Frank > > -- > Frank Heldt > mailto:Frank.Heldt@t-online.de > mailto:Frank.Heldt@mahr.de > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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