{"id":"00411","group":"easy-ham-1","checksum":{"type":"MD5","value":"478dc892fbb1a7970a4442fd6b977c25"},"text":"From <EMAIL>  Tue Sep  3 22:20:28 2002\nReturn-Path: <<EMAIL>>\nDelivered-To: y<EMAIL>assassin.taint.org\nReceived: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1])\n\tby jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149C716F69\n\tfor <jm@localhost>; Tue,  3 Sep 2002 22:19:46 +0100 (IST)\nReceived: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1]\n\tby localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)\n\tfor jm@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 03 Sep 2002 22:19:46 +0100 (IST)\nReceived: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org\n    (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g83KStZ01954 for <<EMAIL>>;\n    Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:28:56 +0100\nReceived: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix)\n    with ESMTP id D8361294103; Tue,  3 Sep 2002 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT)\nDelivered-To: <EMAIL>int.<EMAIL>\nReceived: from mail.evergo.net (unknown [206.191.151.2]) by xent.com\n    (Postfix) with SMTP id A643E294099 for <<EMAIL>>; Tue,\n    3 Sep 2002 13:25:12 -0700 (PDT)\nReceived: (qmail 18433 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2002 20:27:39 -0000\nReceived: from dsl.192.168.3.11.evergo.net (HELO JMHALL)\n    (192.168.3.11) by mail.evergo.net with SMTP; 3 Sep 2002 20:27:39 -0000\nReply-To: <<EMAIL>>\nFrom: \"<NAME>\" <<EMAIL>>\nTo: <<EMAIL>>\nSubject: RE: Gasp!\nMessage-Id: <005601c25388$59f8f220$0200a8c0@JMHALL>\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\nX-Priority: 3 (Normal)\nX-Msmail-Priority: Normal\nX-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627\nX-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000\nIn-Reply-To: <<EMAIL>>\nImportance: Normal\nSender: fork-admin@xent.com\nErrors-To: fork-admin@xent.com\nX-Beenthere: <EMAIL>\nX-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11\nPrecedence: bulk\nList-Help: <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=help>\nList-Post: <mailto:<EMAIL>>\nList-Subscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>, <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=subscribe>\nList-Id: Friends of <NAME> <fork.xent.com>\nList-Unsubscribe: <http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork>,\n    <mailto:<EMAIL>?subject=unsubscribe>\nList-Archive: <http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/>\nDate: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:27:40 -0700\n\nI used Async IO on System V in the '87, '88 time frame.  I did it that\nway cause I thought it was cool to see if I could keep the tape\nspinning.\n\nI can believe Linux is catching up to this, but some ability to do async\nIO already existed in the UNIX world.\n\nJohn Hall\n13464 95th Ave NE\nKirkland WA 98034\n\n\n> -----Original Message-----\n> From: <EMAIL> [mailto:<EMAIL>] On Behalf Of\nAdam\n> <NAME>\n> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:35 PM\n> To: <EMAIL>\n> Subject: Gasp!\n> \n> \"Red Hat Linux Advanced Server provides many high end features such\nas:\n> Support for Asynchronous I/O. Now read I/O no longer needs to stall\nyour\n> application while waiting for completion.\"\n> \n> Could it be? After 20 years without this feature UNIX finally catches\nup\n> to\n> Windows and has I/O that doesnt totally suck for nontrivial apps? No\nway!\n> \n> OK, so they do it with signals or a flag, which is completely ghetto,\nbut\n> at\n> least they are trying. Keep trying guys, you got the idea, but not the\n> clue.\n> \n> - <NAME>. \"Duncan\" Beberg\n>   http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/\n>   <EMAIL>\n\n\n\n"}