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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Non-blocking file I/O is an open issue.
>>
>>AIO is probably a better path.
> 
> 
> AIO is requiring you to poll and check if I/O is complete. select() does 

Incorrect.  The entire point of AIO is that its an async callback 
system, when the I/O is complete...  just like the kernel's internal I/O 
request queue system.

	Jeff