Am 31.12.2005 um 20:12 schrieb Vlad Seryakov:
aio_read/aio_write system calls look like supported ubnder Linux
yes. most of modern os's support some kind of kaio. I have checked solaris, linux and darwin and all do. the problem with spawning yet another thread is system resources. each new thread (on solaris) results in an lwp which is not cheap. therfore I'd opt to use aio for largefile spooling.Zoran
