14 Feb
2017
14 Feb
'17
9:50 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017, at 09:18, Nick Downing wrote:
Having a hypothetical system with a very slow disk (or
fast
CPU) in which disk accesses are blocking, would break many programs.
cheers, Nick
That's not very hypothetical, but it is probably the reason disk access
(and even access to regular files on networked filesystems) isn't
interruptible, and non-blocking I/O useless in such situations, on some
modern systems.