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- Submitted-by: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew)
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- >In the filesystem abstraction, you open a filename in one stage. You
- >can't do anything between initiating the open and finding out whether or
- >not it succeeds. This just doesn't match reality, and it places a huge
- >restriction on programs that want to do something else while they
- >communicate.
-
- Sounds like you want an asynchronous open facility, much like the
- asynchronous read and write that others already have on their wish
- list for file I/O (and other I/O) (not everyone believes that multiple
- threads are the way to do asynch I/O).
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- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 181
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