Re: Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO (preliminary)

Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com)
Sat, 03 Jun 2000 23:40:51 -0600


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I Asynchronous I/O (aio_*)
>
> In glibc

So is there no advantage of having something like that in the kernel, to
allow a program to queue up many buffers for the network code to handle
as it can, rather than either blocking on a send() or repeatedly making
kernel calls on a nonblocking socket until it manages to send all its
data?

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