From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T05:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: event driven framework for ruby

James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:

> 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

I know no POSIX system that honours O_NONBLOCK for disk I/O. That
includes linux, *bsd.

OTOH, AsyncIO is supposed to be a solution to this problem. But except
for win32, AsyncIO support on posix systems is spotty.

YS.