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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Mark Woodward <markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: > Does anyone know of a standard asynchronous file I/O system for Linux? > > I just wrote one because I needed to try something, but I was wondering if > there is a more mainstream project going on. From what I've been able to > find, you can't do much better than what I did with the POSIX API and that > was open a file multiple times, use posix threads, mutexes, and events to > queue up I/O requests to the threads. It looks to me like you are re-inventing the POSIX AIO functions. "man 3 aio" on my Linux system looks like a good place to learn more about this. It at least appears to be worth a look.... Note: I've never used these functions, I just vaguely remembered that they existed. Bill Bogstad
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