adam l beberg bebergmithralcom sun 1 sep 2002 bill stoddard wrote red hat linux advanced server provides many high end features support asynchronous io read io longer needs stall application waiting completion provide reference could find im lazy well saw compaq testdrive site seriously dig redhat site one whitepapers httpwwwredhatcompdfasas_rasmpdf could 20 years without feature unix finally catches windows io doesnt totally suck nontrivial apps way devpoll freebsds kq event driven apis count imho true async io implemented windows 40 beyond pretty slick programming model substantially complex programming event api like devpoll true async buy much system call overhead low linux havent used fbsd poll portable select pollstill 100 exist unix world redhat course doesnt count portable either nice trying windows io model definately blow doors unix one select point suckiness anything would improvement unix looking io model adapting multiprocess multithreaded world gon na years yet posix api comes bottom line stuff something happens model turned right unix look something keep looking till find matter many times look really working great anymore adam l duncan beberg httpwwwmithralcombeberg bebergmithralcom sun 1 sep 2002 165924 0700 pdt gasp