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Re:Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison by wmf on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:16PM (#41496537)
Just imagine trying to express the complexity of [a filesystem] in continuations or some sort of state machine!

Arguably asyc/await could help with this; obviously it didn't exist in 1991 when Linux was created but it would be interesting to revisit this topic.

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Re:Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison by SoothingSorbet on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @04:16AM (#41498441)
> Arguably asyc/await could help with this; obviously it didn't exist in 1991 when Linux was created

Wouldn't that just consist of I/O operations returning futures and then having an await() block the calling thread until the future is done (i.e. put it on a waitqueue)?

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