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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What new system calls do you want in BSD?
Message-ID: <MSM1E7xds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Feb 90 23:07:08 GMT
References: <12157@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <7848@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <2212.21:08:11@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <131446@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <131446@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
> Bottom line: threads without kernel support are largely useless.

Which is one reason I want *clean* asynchronous I/O, in the form of
some equivalent of my aread/awrite/await proposal.
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