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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Asynchronous IO programming in OCaml
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On 25 Oct 2010, at 13:10, J=E9r=E9mie Dimino wrote:
> AFAIK libaio is linux-specific

If we are talking about aio_read() and company, these functions are =
available on at least FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris and Mac OS X too.  I looked =
into this some years back and while I would say it is standard unix =
stuff, I do recall finding a few slight differences between platforms.  =
FreeBSD required loading a kernel module (aio.ko IIRC) to use this, and =
if it wasn't loaded the program would just die horribly.

It can be wrapped as an OCaml module, but expect to put many #ifdef's in =
your C code.

Regards.
-DS=