linux-kernel - Re: include/linux/aio_abi.h and IOCB_CMD

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Message-Id: <E1MCCnb-0005Bc-09@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:16:03 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	goswin-v-b@....de
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, goswin-v-b@....de
Subject: Re: include/linux/aio_abi.h and IOCB_CMD_POLL

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 3) Are there any alternatives to libaio that don't use threads and
>    support polling?

There are the poll, select and epoll interfaces that block, but are
able to multiplex events from many file descriptors.

And there's the O_ASYNC flag that can be set with an fcntl(), that
sends a SIGIO signal on an I/O event.

All of these work on /dev/fuse.

Thanks,
Miklos
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