From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:32:22 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix In-Reply-To: <20150920123933.8869D18C0EB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20150920123933.8869D18C0EB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20150920143222.GA11889@mcvoy.com> 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