Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open() | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:00:03 +0000 |
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From: Daniel Colascione > Sent: 01 April 2019 17:45 ... > > Now, none of this was ever really used. The people who wanted AIO > > wanted the brain-damaged POSIX kind of AIO, not something cool and > > clever. So I suspect the whole exit-signal thing was just used for > > random small per-project things. > > AIO is a whole other ball of wax. :-)
For AIO you need to go back and tell K&R to use the IO_QIO stuff from RSX/11M rather than the 'IO in process context' they used for Unix :-)
Then you'd end up with the windows kernel.....
David
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