Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ...

From: "Matthew N(dot) Dodd" <winter(at)jurai(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ...
Date: 1998-04-12 17:38:44
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.3.96.980412132923.1796O-100000@sasami.jurai.net
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I found it. It is an fcntl option. From man fcntl:
>
> O_ASYNC Enable the SIGIO signal to be sent to the process group when
> I/O is possible, e.g., upon availability of data to be read.
>
> Who else supports this?

FreeBSD, and NetBSD appearto.

Linux and Solaris appear not to.

I was really speaking of the POSIX 1003.1B AIO/LIO calls when I originally
brought this up. (aio_read/aio_write)

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