Async IO on Linux - lighty's lifetrunk/ just got support Linux Native AIO. I implemented Async IO based on libaio which is a minimal wrapper around the aio-syscalls for the 2.6.x kernels. Implementation It was a bit tricky to get it working as libaio is basicly undocumented, but hey … that’s why we are hackers :) The async file IO support is part of Linux 2.6.9 and later and should be on every recent linux box. A separate library
