>>>>> "TH" == Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TH> Certainly I know Unixware used to fake it up by creating a new
TH> thread and doing sync IO in that thread, and I think Solaris did
TH> the same but that was a couple of years ago now so things might
TH> be better now.
solaris has a full async i/o system. its major weakness is it relies on
SIGIO to let you know i/o is done, no direct callbacks. there are 2
api's (aio_read and aioread. librt and libaio) to choose from. here is
form the aio man page:
SISCD_2.3 (SPARC only) - The SPARC Compliance Definition,
revision 2.3:
aiocancel aioread aiowait
aiowrite
SUNW_1.1 (generic):
aio_close aio_fork aioread64
aiowrite64 assfail close
fork sigaction sigignore
signal sigset
now what bothers me is that all those calls are in section 3 and are no
section 2 system calls. maybe it is faked with threads but i haven't
found any support for that notion. if so, i wonder if we can actually
use it and not collide with perl threads?
uri
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