Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: dot@dotat.at Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Message-ID: <199909132057.NAA40676@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <E11QHlE-000Cce-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> References: <199909091418.QAA05520@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <E11QHlE-000Cce-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
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In article <E11QHlE-000Cce-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote: > > Are there any standard APIs for doing file meta-operations > asynchronously? (open, close, creat, link, unlink, etc.) I only know of one way to do that. Hand the operation off to a separate process, using the FD-passing feature of Unix domain sockets to send the file descriptor back and forth. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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