[TUHS] Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Mon Sep 21 00:41:52 AEST 2015


On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 07:32:22AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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

Whoops, wrng url, try this:

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

Thanks to Charles Anthony for pointing that out to me.



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