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From: pplacewa@bbn.com (Paul W Placeway)
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Subject: Re: UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O
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Date: 31 Aug 90 18:05:26 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

< ... Disk errors are a very rare occurrence, and almost always require
< human intervention anyway. Any other return value for read is known
< ahead of time.

Unless your "disk" is RFS and the remote machine crashes, or soft
mounted NFS and any one of about a zillion things happens...


		-- Paul Placeway