Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: An FS idea - good or bad? Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 90 17:42:19 GMT References: <1766@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> <884@sce.carleton.ca> <887@sce.carleton.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <887@sce.carleton.ca> graham@sce.carleton.ca (Doug Graham) writes: > Damn! Caught with my pants down. I rushed out and ordered a copy > of 1003.4, but probably won't get it for 2 weeks or so. In the meantime, > could you summarize in a paragraph or two, how it requires that > a process may have multiple outstanding requests. Section 11, asynchronous Input and Output. "The asynchronous I/O mechanism will allow a single process to perform I/O simultaneously to a single file multiple times or to multiple files multiple times". Now you might not want to do real-time in MINIX, but I'm sticking to AmigaOS until Minix provides all the facilities of AmigaOS... including most of what's covered by P1003.4. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`