[erlang-questions] Opening "Special" Files

[Jayson Vantuyl]

Isn't this prevented by the asynchronous I/O threading stuff (erl +A  
NNN)?  I'm unsure why a block device would be that different than a  
file in that case.  Both create a potentially random seek and both  
mitigate this with cache.

On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
> My understanding based on discussions on the mailing list is that this
> is an effort to avoid blocking I/O: a OS-level block on read or write
> would result in all Erlang-level threads managed by the current
> process being suspended until the I/O completes or times out.

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Jayson Vantuyl
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