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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Do we need CONFIG_AIO?
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Currently all aio code in the raw-posix block driver depends on a
CONFIG_AIO symbol that gets set based on the availability of the
pthreads library.  Beeing able to rely on unconditional aio support
means we could remove the whole code for plain bdrv_read/bdrv_write
in raw-posix.c which is about 300 lines of code and a duplicated code
path.  Is there any Posix-ish platform qemu supports that does not
have pthreads support?