tech-kern: Re: async io in netbsd

Subject: Re: async io in netbsd
To: HARAWAT.IN.ORACLE.COM <HARAWAT.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/12/1997 11:56:17

> 	Does netbsd1.2.1 has async io support for files, and for sockets ie. 
> when the data comes to the file descriptor SIGIO signal is sent to the process. 

Yes. 

See "man 2 fcntl", especially the section about F_GETFL / F_SETFL and the
flags O_ASYNC and O_NONBLOCK.

Now, I don't understand why you ask this on tech-kern... netbsd-help would
seem more appropriate to me. Forwarding there, Reply-To: set.

	-is