Hi Ingo,
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 15:39, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > What are the semantics of async sys_async_wait and async sys_async ?
> >
> > Ooooohh. OpenVMS lives forever ;) Me likeee ;)
>
> hm, i dont know OpenVMS - but googled around a bit for 'VMS
> asynchronous' and it gave me this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_system_trap
>
> is AST what you mean? From a quick read AST seems to be a signal
> mechanism a bit like Unix signals, extended to kernel-space as well -
> while syslets are a different 'safe execution engine' kind of thing
> centered around the execution of system calls.
>
That is only one of ways of notifying userspace of system call completion
on OpenVMS. Pretty much every syscall there exists in 2 flavors - async
and sync, for example $QIO and $QIOW or $ENQ/$ENQW (actually -W flavor
is async call + $SYNCH to wait for completion). Once system service call
is completed the OS would raise a so-called event flag and may also
deliver an AST to the process. Application may either wait for an
event flag/set of event flags (EFN) or rely on AST to get notification.
--
Dmitry
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