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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: async socket stuff
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970527111554.10830E-100000@rodan.syr.edu> from Christopher Sedore at "May 27, 97 11:24:22 am"
To: cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu (Christopher Sedore)
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:57:39 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> 2. Implementing general async I/O for sockets.  Then, rather than (or
> perhaps in addition to) the above functionality, you could use the queue
> to hold results of async operations.
> 
My general purpose AIO/LIO code works with any file descriptor.  It is
being tested/debugged as we speak.  There is also work to support efficient
AIO/LIO on specific types of file descriptors (e.g. raw disks.)

John