What is the status of POSIX asynchronous I/O (AIO)?
Doing socket I/O efficiently has been solved with kqueue, epoll, IO completion ports and the likes. Doing asynchronous file I/O is sort of a late comer (apart from windows’ overlapped I/O and solaris early support for posix AIO). If you’re looking for doing socket I/O, you’re probably better off using one of the above mechanisms. … Read more