Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Query Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 01:28:17 GMT References: <126800008@.Prime.COM> <60345@lanl.gov> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <60345@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: > Not on UNIX it won't. There is no system call for the library to use > which will start a read request and then return control to the library > while the read is asynchronously processing. No, but the operating system does this for you. > This is one of the most glaring deficiencies of UNIX. No, this is a symptom of the general lack of realtime and transaction processing capabilities which is one of the most glaring deficiencies of UNIX. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com