[ale] aio calls

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> 	I am interested in doing some asynchronous IO. I'd like to be
> portable to Mac, Linux and FreeBSD and I'd like to use the aio calls, but
> there are no man pages for them on either the mac or Linux, although the
> mac has <sys/aio.h> and Linux has <aio.h> file for inclusion. Anyone use
> these? The alternative is to use another thread and a buffer, which I've
> done before, but it seems a lot messier than the aio solution.

Get a better distro ;-). Both the Debian and Fedora Core boxes I'm on right 
now have the aio_* man pages....

later,
chris