Re: async io?

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
11 May 1999 14:14:31 +0100


Hi,

On Thu, 06 May 1999 08:12:40 +0000, Dan Kegel
<dank@alumni.caltech.edu> said:

> However, you don't have the ability to specify one signal
> for one I/O operation, and a different signal for the next,
> I think. And that means you can't tell what the signal
> means, i.e. whether the socket is now ready for reading,
> or for writing. I hope I'm wrong about this.

I've got experimental patches to fill in the si_band field on queued
sigio delivery, which will provide this information.

--Stephen

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