To: goswin-v-b@web.de
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, goswin-v-b@web.de
In-reply-to: <87d49k6h45.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (message from Goswin von
	Brederlow on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:18:50 +0200)
Subject: Re: include/linux/aio_abi.h and IOCB_CMD_POLL
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Message-Id: <E1MCCnb-0005Bc-09@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:16:03 +0200
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 3) Are there any alternatives to libaio that don't use threads and
>    support polling?

There are the poll, select and epoll interfaces that block, but are
able to multiplex events from many file descriptors.

And there's the O_ASYNC flag that can be set with an fcntl(), that
sends a SIGIO signal on an I/O event.

All of these work on /dev/fuse.

Thanks,
Miklos
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