On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > I'd like to echo this sentiment. This is not about providing a 'safe' > wrapper to hide some powerful feature of these APIs: the POSIX aio_* > functions are really completely useless. > To quote the relevant standard > <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/aio.h.html>: > > APPLICATION USAGE > None. > RATIONALE > None. > FUTURE DIRECTIONS > None. No comment on the rest of your claim, but this is a silly argument. The standard says the same thing about at least fcntl.h, signal.h, pthread.h, and ucontext.h, which clearly are useful. Jeffrey
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