UNIX does *not* fully support asynchronous I/O

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <29639:Aug2903:48:4290 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>I was describing how asynchronous I/O works when there's no OS in the
>way. You start talking about how a particular OS does asynchronous I/O.

Does this have something to do with unix?  The usual concept of unix I/O
is that something that is written to disk is likely to be read back and
thus should live in the common buffer pool for a while.  

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us