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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 - NetBSD libaio
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:21:07 +0100
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On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 14:23 +0100, Mike C. wrote:
> NetBSD uses the POSIX aio I wonder if xen could use that?

Hrm, seem like this has come up before (I'd totally forgotten).

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-01/msg00499.html says
that "NetBSD provides the aio interface (IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
(``POSIX.1'')) via the POSIX real-time library (-lrt)." (which I suppose
is the same as what you were referring to)

On the other hand libaio is only used by blktap, isn't it? That's
totally Linux specific. Perhaps you could send a patch to the autoconf
machinery to remove the libaio requirement on non-Linux?

Ian.