UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O

[Paul W Placeway]

peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

< ... Disk errors are a very rare occurrence, and almost always require
< human intervention anyway. Any other return value for read is known
< ahead of time.

Unless your "disk" is RFS and the remote machine crashes, or soft
mounted NFS and any one of about a zillion things happens...


		-- Paul Placeway