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OSnews Asks: Could You Live Without Blocking Calls?

Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Fri 27th May 2011 11:34 UTC

After having an interesting discussion with Brendan on the topic of deadlocks in threaded and asynchronous event handling systems (see the comments on this blog post), I just had something to ask to the developers on OSnews: could you live without blocking API calls? Could you work with APIs where lengthy tasks like writing to a file, sending a signal, doing network I/O, etc is done in a nonblocking fashion, with only callbacks as a mechanism to return results and notify your software when an operation is done?

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RE[5]: IO calls never need to block.

by JAlexoid on Sun 29th May 2011 10:43 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: IO calls never need to block."

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2009-05-19

Well that's just not fair, your trying to make fun of me and I'm trying to have a serious discussion... I won't go to your level.

And I take it you don't plan to address that gap in your knowledge?

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RE[6]: IO calls never need to block.

by Alfman on Sun 29th May 2011 18:24 in reply to "RE[5]: IO calls never need to block."

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2011-01-28

JAlexoid,

"And I take it you don't plan to address that gap in your knowledge?"

What gap in my knowledge? I didn't know a certain keyword, I looked it up before responding back. I learned something, so I thank your for having brought it up.

But you are a vicious troll.

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