Re: I/O completion ports for Linux

Robey Pointer (robey@lag.net)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 16:45:18 -0800

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > * The AIO thread catches the completed I/O and sends the
> > proper signal to the thread.
> >
> > Do you think that would work? (cc:ing linux-kernel)
>
> So why does it need kernel help. The posix rt signals appear sufficient
> to return the required information.

For "AIO thread" I meant the thread that libc created to handle the
IOCP, not a kernel thread... sorry.

Robey

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