Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asynchronous+IO+linux

I take it you didn't actually read past the first line of the question? :-)

"A more subtle problem with non-blocking I/O is that it generally doesn't 
work with regular files."

Given there are about 8 ways to do asynch I/O, none of which seem to work 
with regular files, I was wondering if there was a 9th yet, or whether one 
just does blocking I/O in a thread, which scales poorly but is good enough 
for my application.

> Apparently there is a POSIX library for this stuff, with kernel support 
> from 2.6 onward. Perhaps that could be of use.

Yeah, and the second link on the page you gave says "It sucks and its 
broken." :-)

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