>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> At 4:21 PM -0400 5/28/04, Uri Guttman wrote: >> i am not against having a sync api but as dan said it should be a >> wrapper around the async stuff. but as we agree (and dan hasn't acked >> yet) the aio ops need a seek arg and the seek/tell ops should be dropped DS> Actually I don't agree, though I'll have to think about it. At the DS> moment I'm leaning towards filehandles maintaining their own position DS> rather than having user code track it. but that doesn't work for parallel aio ops. a handle seek pointer makes no sense in that env. for sync io ops, keep a seek value in the handle but ignore that for aio ops. and i meant for users who do aio, they have to track the seek locations for each op. if you use sync ops, it should work the way they do now. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org