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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 10:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu (Christopher Sedore)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aio_suspend() functionality
Message-ID:  <199904221439.KAA29489@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.990421215301.26724A-100000@rodan.syr.edu> from Christopher Sedore at "Apr 21, 99 10:25:18 pm"

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> I sent a message a day or two ago asking if anyone had looked into
> changing the behavior of aio_suspend so that it did not require a list of
> aiocb's, but rather would accept an array of null pointers, and then fill
> them in for you when an operation completed. 

Unfortunately this explicitly violates the standard so be sure to
conditionalize it properly.  In 6.7.8.2 about the array:  "This
array may contain NULL pointers, which shall be ignored."

The hooks POSIX tries to provide to implement what you want are
via signals - using aio_sigevent, SIGEV_SIGNAL, "Realtime Signals",
and the associated si_value for the completion cookie.

Peter

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Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime development, Machine control,
HD Associates, Inc.               Safety critical systems, Agency approval


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