Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 13:15:35 EST


>>>>> Peter Zaitsev writes:

>> >
>> > Could you please tell me if there is (or planned) the sxatter/gather or
>> > queue processing on file I/O level.
>> > I mean the syscall there you pass an array of different requests which
> may
>> > read or write data in different locations of file. Of couse this may be
>> > implemented on user level but the in this case you lose the gain of
> requests
>> > reordering and processing them in optimal sequence.
>>
>> aio_read(), aio_write, lio_listio() ?

> Well may be - but could you tell me there can i find a documentaion about
> these syscalls - the url in kernel-docs.txt is broken :( the man also does
> not give anything :(
Those are not syscalls - they're part of glibc. The libc manual
documents those functions.

Andreas

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