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Re: compat_linux and AIO



On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 04:15:20PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
 > > That's what Linux does for the most part.  I don't think our current
 > > VFS protocol is particularly amenable to making this work easily.
 > 
 > A first version may always implement the async calls as sync, right?
 > I've seen no requirement that prohibits that.

Applications that go to the trouble of using aio generally do so for a
reason, and therefore generally also don't work properly if it's
synchronous.

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David A. Holland
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