Re: Thread implementations...

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:56:03 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:15:17PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > Why bother with sendfile() if you have aio_*() available? sendfile()
> > is a trivial wrapper to aio_*().
>
> True, aio_* with page aligned buffers and vm hacks amount to the same thing
> anyhow, but I don't know of anyone actively working on the mm system in this
> area.

AFAIK, there is indeed nobody working on this. If people
actually want this feature, I'll add it to the TODO-list
on http://linux-mm.home.ml.org/...

Rik.
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