From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:50:31 +0100

> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 20:37, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>  
> > To have a fully async, zero copy network receive, POSIX read(2) is 
> > inadequate. 
> 
> Agreed, but POSIX aio is adequate.

No, it's a joke.

To do this stuff right you want networking experts (not UNIX interface
standards experts) to come up with how to do things, because folks
like POSIX are going to make a rocking implementation next to
impossible.

Only folks like Van Jacobson can take us out of the myopic view we
currently have of how networking receive is done.
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