[TUHS] Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 08:39:33AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Anyway, back to the original topic: I don't want to speculate (although I
> could :-); perhaps someone who was around 'back then' can offer some insight?
> If not, time for speculation! :-)

I don't have the answer but I noodled around with one quite a while ago:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/p/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.pdf