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Async I/O

Async I/O

Posted Nov 25, 2010 17:09 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683)
In reply to: Async I/O by kleptog
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

you might also want to look at libaio which actually uses the kernel's async io facilities... but it seems there's some issues with it...

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-01-08.html

I'd say poke around a bit, I think you probably can get what you want on Linux already... it just may not be easy to find the documentation...

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