Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-37,: Re: High Performance I/O stuff (more)

# Re: High Performance I/O stuff (more)

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:25:32 +0100 (BST)

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Hi,

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:15:21 -0400, Jordan Mendelson <jordy@wserv.com>
said:

> Hopefully these will be integrated into the stable tree soon since
> without it, SIGIO doesn't do much for you.

Even without it, it's good enough for a lot of applications. Consider a
web server: you keep pushing data out with non-blocking writes() on
getting the siginfo for a fd, and if there is a connection error, you
get the status back from the write() syscall.

--Stephen

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