Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: O_NONBLOCK | Date | Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:00:41 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Any implementation of O_NONBLOCK on disk files any time in the forseeable future > (2.4? 2.5? 4.5?:( )... Irix has it, many commercial unices have it, > Windows NT has it (!), (does *BSD have it?), it would speed up khttpd on large > sites and would be very useful for any fileserver-type thing (e.g. a proxy I'm
O_NDELAY on disk files doesn't do what you think I suspect. Every unix I know ignores it. You can do asynchronous disk I/O on Linux with a thread (or small number of threads) issuing the I/O requests
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