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Revision 1.26 by root, Thu Jul 7 23:17:23 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.27 by root, Fri Jul 8 02:43:47 2005 UTC

  use Linux::AIO;
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
-This module implements asynchronous i/o using the means available to linux
+This module implements asynchronous I/O using the means available to Linux
-- clone. It does not hook into the POSIX aio_* functions because linux
+- clone. It does not hook into the POSIX aio_* functions because Linux
-does not yet support these in the kernel (and even if, it would only allow
+does not yet support these in the kernel (even as of 2.6.12, only O_DIRECT
-aio_read and write, not open and stat).
+files are supported) and even if, it would only allow aio_read and write,
+not open, stat and so on.
 Instead, in this module a number of (non-posix) threads are started that
 execute your read/writes and signal their completion. You don't need
 thread support in your libc or perl, and the threads created by this
 module will not be visible to the pthreads library.
 NOTICE: the threads created by this module will automatically be killed
 when the thread calling min_parallel exits. Make sure you only ever call
 min_parallel from the same thread that loaded this module.
-Although the module will work with threads, it is not reentrant, so use
+Although the module will work with in the presence of other threads, it is
-appropriate locking yourself.
+not reentrant, so use appropriate locking yourself.
 =over 4
 =cut

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