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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 
not require any polling and just needs to be made to work the way it was 
intended to.