Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 13:15:35 EST

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    >>>>> Peter Zaitsev writes:

    >> >
    >> > Could you please tell me if there is (or planned) the sxatter/gather or
    >> > queue processing on file I/O level.
    >> > I mean the syscall there you pass an array of different requests which
    > may
    >> > read or write data in different locations of file. Of couse this may be
    >> > implemented on user level but the in this case you lose the gain of
    > requests
    >> > reordering and processing them in optimal sequence.
    >>
    >> aio_read(), aio_write, lio_listio() ?

    > Well may be - but could you tell me there can i find a documentaion about
    > these syscalls - the url in kernel-docs.txt is broken :( the man also does
    > not give anything :(
    Those are not syscalls - they're part of glibc. The libc manual
    documents those functions.

    Andreas

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     Andreas Jaeger
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