Re: async-io and freebsd

From: Sascha Schumann <sascha@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:00:51 +0100

On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:23:54AM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> > AIO is supported since FreeBSD 3.0.
> >
> > As I understand it, threads are not necessary for AIO. Linux
> > happens to implement AIO by using extra threads, because
> > there is no AIO support in kernel land.
>
> Squid does not use AIO, Squid uses it's own AIO like implementation on
> top of posix threads.

    Thanks for correcting me. pthreads are available in FreeBSD
    as well.

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          Regards,
                            Sascha Schumann
                                 Consultant
Received on Fri Nov 12 1999 - 05:12:14 MST

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