> In fact, the application that really started me thinking in earnest
> about clone() problems is sort-of asynchronous I/O: deep in my support
> library I have "Channel" object, a bit like C library "FILE *"
> streams, but properly full duplex (i.e. a separate read and write
> buffer) plus a lot more smarts. Set an attribute and suddenly any
> blocking writes as well as read-ahead can be done by a child thread,
> leaving the main thread to write without blocking but also without
> having to worry about rescheduling writes if you get EAGAIN.
>
as it so happens, i am porting a high performance database from
370/assembler to linux.
would it be possible to obtain these sources by anonymous ftp?
i've reinvented enough wheels for one lifetime.
thanks,
bill