[ On Tuesday, October 17, 2000 at 05:42:30 (+0200), Lennart Augustsson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Time to fix a 25 year old misdesign
>
> Comments?

I still haven't seen any solid reasons for doing this.....

Keep in mind that the SIGIO issue can be dealt with by simply requiring
drivers that support it to always force exclusive access (or to prevent
process which did not successfully request and receive exclusive access
to never enable async-IO.

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