From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4414 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2004 16:17:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4397 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2004 16:17:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e32.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.130) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Apr 2004 16:17:13 -0000 Received: from westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.32]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i3NGHCnU568772; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:17:12 -0400 Received: from d03nm691.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.193.82]) by westrelay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i3NGH9P6209664; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:17:11 -0600 Reply-To: bmark@us.ibm.com To: aj@suse.de Cc: Glibc hackers MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: AIO work in librt From: Mark Brown Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:17:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 Given this conversation from last year: Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Ulrich Drepper writes: > > Andreas Jaeger wrote: > >> AFAIK Ben's kernel level implementation is in current 2.5 kernels. > >> Can we base now a glibc implementation on this? Anybody already > >> working on this? > > > > I doN't think the kernel side is complete enough. > > Ben, what is still missing on the kernel side? Looking at fs/aio.c I > thought it was complete. We are thinking about making this work in librt (and submitting it, of course). Andreas, did you learn anything from Ben? Anyone else know of a factor that keeps this from being able to work? ------------------- Mark S. Brown IBM Systems Group, Linux Technology Center bmark@us.ibm.com