Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I found it.  It is an fcntl option.  From man fcntl:
>
>      O_ASYNC      Enable the SIGIO signal to be sent to the process group when
>                   I/O is possible, e.g., upon availability of data to be read.
>
> Who else supports this?

FreeBSD, and NetBSD appearto.

Linux and Solaris appear not to.

I was really speaking of the POSIX 1003.1B AIO/LIO calls when I originally
brought this up. (aio_read/aio_write)

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