Assembly Syscall Question

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200308022214.h72MEgrE015449 at apollo.backplane.com>
            Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> writes:
:     Additionally, the mechanism can
:     be extended to support chained system calls (i.e. issue several system
:     calls at once), and transactional sequences.

VMS has done this for a long time. :-) All of their system calls were
asynchronous.  The synchronous versions are done in userland by
calling async version plus wait.

Warner