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Article #1568Re: UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O
From: Todd M. Lewis
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 14:29
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 1990 14:29
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In article <31445.26dc0466@ccavax.camb.com> merriman@ccavax.camb.com writes: >In article <1990Aug29.170931.10853@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, > rsc@merit.edu (Richard Conto) writes: > >> >> Make it simpler. Have a routine that requests an I/O operation. Another >> routine that can check it's status. A way of specifying a routine to be >> called when the I/O operation completes might be yet another option. > >Sure sounds like VMS QIO calls. Sounds like the Amiga's OS to me. And UNIX doesn't do this? I'm trying to be a UNIX nut in training, but I keep hearing about these new tricks that seem to be rather hard to teach the old dog. I'd hate to wake up in 5 years and realize that UNIX had become to workstations what MS-DOS is to PCs now. Somebody pinch me.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!emory!mephisto!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!utoddl From: utoddl@uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O Message-ID: <1990Aug31.142906.26633@uncecs.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 14:29:06 GMT References: <126800008@.Prime.COM> <60345@lanl.gov> <1990Aug21.223350.7595@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <11576:Aug2503:18:3790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <27619@nuchat.UUCP> <1990Aug29.170931.10853@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <31445.26dc0466@ccavax.camb.com> Distribution: usa Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 17