From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T05:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: event driven framework for ruby

On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Yohanes Santoso wrote:

> Disk I/O will always block the process executing it. only way to avoid
> that is to have another process do the disk I/O (at least on linux,
> *bsd; there used to have a unix that does not have this limitation,
> but i can't remember the name). Using native thread also does not help
> since the whole process is blocked.

Non-blocking IO is another solution.

James Edward Gray II