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Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2011 09:59:42 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:

> I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to
> efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one
> program (fcp) does that.
>
> Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My
> investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read
> things.

So, John, you don't think it's reasonable to rewrite every program a
la fcp? How unreasonable of you :-)

ron