Non-blocking buffered file read operations
Non-blocking buffered file read operations
Posted Oct 7, 2014 17:01 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Non-blocking buffered file read operations by ssokolow
Parent article: Non-blocking buffered file read operations
What, so we can only have billions of them? That's not limited enough to provide a reason to not make something a system call. :)
(More relevant is that you need to wait until support percolates into glibc to use a system call, or have applications hardwire the call themselves during the transition period -- but the same applies to adding new flag bits, since you need to wait for their symbolic constants to hit glibc, or have applications hardwire the call themselves.)