[Python-Dev] Support for async read/write (original) (raw)

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 06:31:40 CEST 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

I'd like to echo this sentiment.  This is not about providing a 'safe' wrapper to hide some powerful feature of these APIs: the POSIX aio* functions are really completely useless. To quote the relevant standard <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/aio.h.html>:

APPLICATION USAGE None. RATIONALE None. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None.

No comment on the rest of your claim, but this is a silly argument. The standard says the same thing about at least fcntl.h, signal.h, pthread.h, and ucontext.h, which clearly are useful.

Jeffrey



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