> > > status = sys$qio(
> > > READ_OPCODE, fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer),
> > > get called with the ast_parameter in the context of the process that
> > > posted the QIO. This provided a powerful and easy-to-use method of
> > > dealing with async IO. It's one of the few VMS features that I wish
> > > Unix supported.
>
> This kind of asynchronous I/O is defined in the Posix RT specification
> and should all be in glibc 2.1.x at some point (the 2.1.x kernel has
> real time signals - which queue and contain one byte of data - the
One _byte_? Would not one long be much, much better? How are you going
to fit filehandle into one byte?
Pavel
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