From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 21 18:53:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.coursepeek.com (stan.coursepeek.com [64.168.142.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97F6137B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 50940 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Feb 2002 02:53:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:53:54 -0800 From: J Turner To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference) Message-ID: <20020221185354.A50908@stan.jamwt.com> References: <20020219092058.A78717@host213-123-131-110.in-addr.bto> <20020219175431.A12535@host213-123-131-110.in-addr.bto> <20020219180004.GO12136@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020219180004.GO12136@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:00:04AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:00:04AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Disk IO can't be done in a non-blocking manner. If the kernel doesn't > have the portion of the file you wish to read in the buffer cache > then the process will block waiting. Isn't this exactly what the kqueue mechanism circumvents? I'm soooo confused.... - Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message