Re: Async IO on Solaris 2.5?

At Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:45:42 +0800, Tan Jin Siong writes:
>> On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Russell Street wrote:
>> > Is anyone using the Async I/O code on Solaris 2.5? If so, how stable
>> > is? Any idea how much of a peformance gain there is?
>> Had tried on the Solaris 2.5.1 (ultra), so far no ava, easily coredump at
>> "aioFileComplete" function call. Other comments :-)

From a Solaris 2.5 aio_read() manual page:-
    BUGS
         In Solaris 2.5, these functions always return - 1 and set
         errno to ENOSYS, because this release does not support the
         Asynchronous Input and Output option. It is our intention
         to provide support for these interfaces in future releases.

ie, compiling with Async I/O enabled under Solaris is unlikely to
result in a working cache. I don't think the code tested for this
case (mea culpa) so I'll add a test for this case to the list of
things for the monster patch I keep meaning to send off to Duane which
fixes some of my bugs and makes it compile under IRIX 5.3 etc. Just a
matter of finding the time *sigh*

Pete.
Received on Fri Aug 16 1996 - 01:11:04 MDT