AIO work in librt

[Mark Brown]

Jakub Jelinekl writes (as did Ulrich in another note):
> RHEL glibc already includes the rtkaio glibc add-on which is librt using
> the kernel AIO interface.

We were looking for something that could go into the main tree, but given 
the
status below...

> Unfortunately, the kernel side is very limited and doesn't have good
> support for the things userland POSIX AIO needs (e.g. in the area of
> notification and cancellation, or that many things are serialized in
> the kernel rather than truely asynchronous; and from what I've heard
> the 2.6 aio is even in worse shape than what we used to have in 2.4.x 
RHEL
> kernels).

Not being an aio expert myself, I didn't know things were in this shape.
I'll pass your opinions here to the team that's proposing the work.


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Mark S. Brown 
bmark@us.ibm.com