Re: Async I/O support attempt for Chromium

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 23:23, Mike Houston wrote:
> I think I can get the SDP layer kicked over to Asynchronous I/O (AIO), 
> but I only know how to do this for Linux.  Does anyone out there know 
> how to get documentation on AIO for other Unix systems? 
So far as I know, there aren't any. Ben Lahaise wrote the original code
for AIO and some of the docs and I wrote the manpages for the rest. (It
helped that his office was next door to mine). I'm not aware of any
other docs. 
 > In theory, this 
> should also work for tcp and allow a cleaner way to handle non-blocking 
> i/o without resulting to threads.
> 
> Setting the sockets to O_NONBLOCK doesn't seem to help as the sockets 
> run out of buffer space quickly and revert back to blocking.  e.g. write 
> returns E_WOULDBLOCK.
> 
> Once I can get crserver to stop segfaulting, I can continue to work on 
> this in my spare time.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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