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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:53:54 -0800
From:      J Turner <jamwt@jamwt.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference)
Message-ID:  <20020221185354.A50908@stan.jamwt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020219180004.GO12136@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:00:04AM -0800
References:  <20020219092058.A78717@host213-123-131-110.in-addr.bto> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202190914510.25289-100000@cranford> <20020219175431.A12535@host213-123-131-110.in-addr.bto> <20020219180004.GO12136@elvis.mu.org>

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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

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