RE: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open()

[David Laight]

From: Daniel Colascione
> Sent: 01 April 2019 17:45
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> > Now, none of this was ever really used. The people who wanted AIO
> > wanted the brain-damaged POSIX kind of AIO, not something cool and
> > clever. So I suspect the whole exit-signal thing was just used for
> > random small per-project things.
> 
> AIO is a whole other ball of wax. :-)

For AIO you need to go back and tell K&R to use the IO_QIO stuff from
RSX/11M rather than the 'IO in process context' they used for Unix :-)

Then you'd end up with the windows kernel.....

	David

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