The 4.3 BSD awrite() solution

[Peter da Silva]

In article <131606 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
> So let's consider your stuff again.  You claim that you've implemented
> awrite().  So what's awrite()?

awrite(fd, buf, n) initiates a write of n bytes from buf, returning
immediately. It returns some token that you can use to tell when the
write is complete and get the number of bytes actually written. You also
need to be able to wait on completion, and a close would implicitly
perform such a wait.
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