Async IO idea

I'm an app programmer, not a kernel hacker. With that caveat... I've been reading LWN article about AIO and the description of Linus' solution and the following realization dawned on me: at its heart, the idea is to fork when blocking. So let's make it explicit with a single new function call:

Async IO idea

I'm an app programmer, not a kernel hacker. With that caveat... I've been reading LWN article about AIO and the description of Linus' solution and the following realization dawned on me: at its heart, the idea is to fork when blocking. So let's make it explicit with a single new function call: