Asynchronous I/O under UNIX

[James Shankland]

In article <6679 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
>peterson at crash.cts.com (John Peterson) writes:

>... in fact, if I had threads, I don't think I'd
>want or need a separate kernel-supported async I/O mechanism.

Yes!  I strongly agree, and it sure is nice to hear someone else taking
this position.  I consider asynchronous I/O a hack to compensate for the
absence of sufficiently lightweight processes.  Of course, one person's
spartan elegance is another's semantic impoverishment, but I consider
it a cleaner, clearer programming model.

jas