On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:37:42PM -0700, glen mccready wrote:
> 
> anyway, there's more to doing posix aio properly than immediates jumps
> to mind and that's what i was pointing out... you also don't need a
> thread per process (or per aio event) to put together a "reasonable"
> hack job. :-)

Of course, there's also (or was, once, briefly) a "BSD aio" abstraction,
and if someone were going to pour the work into actually doing aio "right"
it might at least be worth a look -- see Fall and Pasquale on splice().

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