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Asynchronous I/O in NetBSD
A few days ago, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius committed
support for
Asynchronous I/O
to NetBSD, a way to initiate input/output operations and
have the system return before they have ended (== running them asynchronous).
When I/O is actually done, the initiating process is usually notified
via a signal. See
aio.h,
aio_read(),
aio_write()
and
friends
in the
Single Unix Specification.
Mindaugas also has
a page with details of NetBSD's implementation of Asynchronous I/O.
[Tags: aio]
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