Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!ncar!stout!thor From: thor@stout.ucar.edu (Rich Neitzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS? Message-ID: <3290@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 25 May 89 17:05:17 GMT References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: thor@thor.UCAR.EDU (Rich Neitzel) Organization: Field Observing Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO Lines: 8 One thing that I would dearly love is good asynch. support. A set of routines that would allow one to do issue an I/O request and specifiy a flag/semaphore that can latter be checked or waited on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------