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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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