=head1 NAME

Linux::AIO - linux-specific aio implemented using clone

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use Linux::AIO;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

=over 4

=cut

package Linux::AIO;

BEGIN {
   $VERSION = 0.001;

   require XSLoader;
   XSLoader::load Linux::AIO, $VERSION;
}

use base 'Exporter';

=item Linux::AIO::min_parallel($nthreads)

Set the minimum number of AIO threads to $nthreads.

=cut

=item Linux::AIO::read($fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset,$callback)
Linux::AIO::write($fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset,$callback)

Reads or writes C<length> bytes from the specified C<fh> and C<offset>
into the scalar given by C<data> and offset C<dataoffset> and calls the
callback without the actual number of bytes read (or undef on error).

=cut

1;

=back

=head1 BUGS

This module has not yet been extensively tested. Watch out!

This module does not use the aio_* posix functions because a) linux does
not have aio, b) the existing aio_* functions use pthreads, which are too
buggy for my usage.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Coro>.

=head1 AUTHOR

 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
 http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/

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