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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:32:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150920143222.GA11889@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150920123933.8869D18C0EB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 08:39:33AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Anyway, back to the original topic: I don't want to speculate (although I
> could :-); perhaps someone who was around 'back then' can offer some insight?
> If not, time for speculation! :-)

I don't have the answer but I noodled around with one quite a while ago:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/p/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.pdf



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-20 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-20 12:39 Noel Chiappa
2015-09-20 14:32 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2015-09-20 14:41   ` Larry McVoy
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2015-09-20  4:38 Peter Jeremy

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