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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by api on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:00AM (#15224924)
I thought you could, at least on Linux.
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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by sgift on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:37AM (#15225255)
You can on (more or less) any modern OS, but it's not part of POSIX, it's platform specific.
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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by xfer on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:19AM (#15225423)
It is part of posix, it's called posix AIO, but working with it is a massive pain.
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