Thread stuck in aioprn

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

Hello!

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, David Xu wrote:
>> FYI, this has recurred, so it seems to be an easy problem to trigger.
>>
>> Kris
>
> can you try attached patch ? it disables support for non-disk files,
> I suspect the test passed non-disk file handle to aio, and caused
> the problem.

   I think it must be done as a workaround _only_. What's the point of having 
asynchronous I/O capability for relatively fast HDDs while missing this 
support for other (slow) I/O such as ttys or pipes? This situation renders the
whole presence of aio almost useless.

Sincerely, Dmitry
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