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Re: aio directions...
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Tom Gall <tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:19:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: aio directions...
- References: <3D09260D.35C5674D@vnet.ibm.com>
Tom Gall <tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> As you've probably noticed Amos and I have been a bit busy lately
> with the aio_* portion of glibc. Hopefully you'll all agree that
> a step towards POSIX 1003.1 compliance is a good thing. (By this
> I mean the POSIX 1003.1 standard that was recently ratified this
> past December)
I agree with that and thanks for the work.
Some of your patches look bogus as pointed out by Ulrich and Roland
already. For example NULL is not a valid pointer, glibc never checks
for it.
> The next step that we're intending on taking with regards to
> aio is to try and address the performance
> question, pushing a portion of the functionality into the
> kernel. We also see a need for some "add-on" functions
> since the polling aspects of AIO seem to be rather popular
> to various crowds.
What add-on functions do you need?
Andreas
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