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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:40:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Please Verify This.
Message-ID:  <199711180640.BAA02513@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117203627.178A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at "Nov 17, 97 08:39:01 pm"

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Jamil J. Weatherbee said:
> 
> 
> Would I be correct to say that buffered I/O is necessarily blocking.
> In other words I noticed that FNONBLOCK flags cannot? be looked at in a
> strategy routine.  Either the block read returns something or it returns
> an error, or it times out and returns an error. There is no way to look @
> fflags though from a strategy routine, correct?
> 
I think that you are right, but our new AIO code (does/will) support
the POSIX.4 (or POSIX.1b) features.  I have better implemented code than
in -current locally, but will not commit it until it is done.  It also doesn't
work with SMP yet.


-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com



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