Re: Good point of Linux over NT

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:49:18 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> POSIX.4 covers asynchronous I/O operations. Its implementable by putting
> POSIX.4 signals into kernel space and using clone(). clone() is so
> fast that doing all the aio stuff in kernel is a lose
>

Alan, please note aiowrite(3), aioread(3), ....

Bryn

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