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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 11:14:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        jasone@canonware.com (Jason Evans)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD
Message-ID:  <199805051614.LAA01913@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505063829.17580B-100000@mozart.canonware.com> from Jason Evans at "May 5, 98 06:41:14 am"

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Jason Evans said:
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > We have had some interesting features in -current, but haven't been
> > enabled due to a lack of NEED right now, including zero copy IN/OUT
> > of the kernel (only out is implemented right now, but in is an equivalent
> > problem to solve, and will probably reserve that for AIO, due to API issues.)
> > This is fairly easy to do with our relatively clean VM code, where object
> > sharing and the like are natural capabilities.
> 
> John, do you expect that AIO will make it into 3.0? 
>
Yes, no question about that.  That and a full SMP-safe kernel
threads mechanism will be there.

(Sorry for not answering this question fully earlier.)

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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