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Asynchronous I/O
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Defined in POSIX 1003.1b (2004), and largely unchanged since then (though see Ulrich Drepper's 2006 proposal), asynchronous I/O provides perhaps the most easily parallelized I/O model on UNIX.
See Also
- "Kernel Asynchronous I/O (AIO) Support for Linux"
- Glibc asynchronous I/O documentation