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Message-ID: <20070213203952.GA18130@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:39:52 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support
* Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> > What are the semantics of async sys_async_wait and async sys_async ?
>
> Ooooohh. OpenVMS lives forever ;) Me likeee ;)
hm, i dont know OpenVMS - but googled around a bit for 'VMS
asynchronous' and it gave me this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_system_trap
is AST what you mean? From a quick read AST seems to be a signal
mechanism a bit like Unix signals, extended to kernel-space as well -
while syslets are a different 'safe execution engine' kind of thing
centered around the execution of system calls.
Ingo
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