RE: Good point of Linux over Windows NT
Michael Nelson (mikenel@netcom.com)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:27:32 -0500
>Since the guts of NT are basically VMS warmed over (hmmm, that would make
>it RSX11M mk III), "asynchronous I/O" probably means the ability to
>request that the kernel start an I/O and send a signal when it is
>complete. Meanwhile the user process goes on doing other stuff.
>Traditionally Unix-like systems do this by forking. Linux can do better
>than that, with threads. (VMS I/O forking is a special case of
>multithreading.) So probably the only thing that is missing is some
>syntactic sugar to package the I/O thread(s) conveniently.
>Did I get it right?
See http://www.microsoft.com/win32dev/base/scalabil.htm for a Microsoft article on writing
scalable Win32 apps. Click the search button at the top of the screen and type in "I/O Completion
Ports" and/or "overlapped I/O" for related information.
Back to Linux. . .
-mike