On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 09:25, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, I'm working up the design for the event and IO system so we can > get that underway (who, me, avoid the unpleasantness of strings? > Nah... :) and I've come across an interesting question. > > The way things are going to work with specific actions a program has > asked to be done, such as a disk read or write, is that you get back > a handle PMC that represents the request, and you can wait on that > handle for the request to be completed. The sequence goes something > like: > > write Px, Py, Sz # Return handle, file, and data to write > waitfor Px # Wait for the request to finish
So, all Parrot IO will be asynchronous? Does that mean that there's no way to perform an atomic read or write? -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
