This week at LWN: Simpler syslets

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 20, 2007 12:18 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Syslets are a proposed mechanism which would allow any system call to be invoked in an asynchronous manner; this technique promises a more comprehensive and simpler asynchronous I/O mechanism and much more - once all of the pesky little details can be worked out. A while back, Zach Brown let it be known that he had taken over the ongoing development of the syslets patch set; things have been relatively quiet since then. But Zach has just returned with a new syslets patch which shows where this idea is going.

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