On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Dope Ice Apollyon the Third
> <kousue@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Luis Useche <useche@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I have been looking for information on how to do asynchronous I/Os in
>>> OBSD with no luck. The only thing I have found so far is the O_ASYNC
>>> flag in the fcntl syscall. I couldn't find any manual that talks about
>>> this. Is this functionality included in OBSD?. If so, where can I find
>>> information?
>>>
>>
>> Well, open(2) mentions "If the O_SYNC flag is set, all I/O operations
>> on the file will be done synchronously.", so I suppose we're supposed
>> to assume the default is O_ASYNC. But I suspect what you're really
>> looking for is select(2).
>
> He's probably looking for aio_read and aio_write and such, but as one
> can tell by the absence of man pages, they don't exist here.
Exactly, I am more interested more in something close to aio_read &
aio_write. I was hoping there was some api I can use. Is there any
reason why POSIX aio does not exist in OBSD? Security reasons maybe?
Luis.
