UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Aug31.190751.12522 at dg-rtp.dg.com> eliot at dg-rtp.dg.com writes:
> So, can anyone think of an application that behaves in this manner
> (i.e.  acts upon the return value from a read by doing something
> important, that does not involve examining the read buffer)?  I can't.

Any program that reads a whole file at a time, like GNU Emacs or TCL.
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