On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote:
> I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to > efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one > program (fcp) does that. > > Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My > investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read > things. So, John, you don't think it's reasonable to rewrite every program a la fcp? How unreasonable of you :-) ron