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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

<snip>

> > How do you write high-performance ftp server without threads if select
> > on regular file always returns "ready"?
> 
> Select can work if the access is sequential, but async IO is a more
> general solution.

Even async IO (ie aio_read/aio_write) should block on the request queue if
its full in Linus mind.








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