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Re:I/O Access Methods for Linux by the8472 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:43PM (#15412019)
> blocking asynchronous: nothing here

(vm)splice maybe?

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Re:I/O Access Methods for Linux by bonzini on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:07PM (#15412200)
io_getevents lets you submit a bunch of I/O operations via io_submit, and then wait synchronously for one (or some) of them to complete.
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