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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by simplotek on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:51AM (#34908000)
> Do you not view io_uring or Windows IOCP as alternatives?

I don't simply due to the fact that no one ever bothered to put something together on UNIX-like systems that resembles any of those options.

If anyone felt that those were worthy ventures, in these last few years we would already have seen something resembling that effort. But we haven't.

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Re:It's time to get the Posix elephant off our necks by maccam94 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:09AM (#34908457)
> no one ever bothered to put something together on UNIX-like systems that resembles any of those options.

What do you mean? io_uring is a Linux kernel interface, and there are several userspace projects that are building upon it.

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