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Asynchronous buffered file I/OAsynchronous buffered file I/OPosted Jan 9, 2007 16:53 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Asynchronous buffered file I/O by ldo Parent article: Asynchronous buffered file I/O
The problem is that the vast majority of all I/O ops are synchronous, so needing multiple syscalls for them is unnecessary overhead. (You might think `who cares, the I/O will dominate', but it may not with e.g. fast network cards).
Plus, synchronous I/O was there first (I suspect this is the *real* reason why it gets syscalls of its own).
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