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Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)
From: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On 20 Jun 2001 10:14:48 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> It does. 

... not

> They are always readable.

That's not very useful. Not in the sense of supporting aync,
non-blocking i/o to disk files without using threads.


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Michael Rothwell
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