Icedtea - NIO2 Linux Asynchronous File IO.

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/6/8 Rupert Smith <rupertlssmith at googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have been checking out icedtea6 today, in order to examine its support for
> nio2. Looking through the source, I cannot find an implementation of
> asynchronous file IO for Linux, but I just wanted to check with someone in
> the know if that is the case, as the code base is quite large, maybe I
> overlooked it?
>
> I think 'SimpleAsynchronousFileChannelImpl.java' is the one that a Linux
> build will use, which implements it by handing off IO events to a thread
> pool, which is a portable solution not taking advantage of OS specific
> asynchronous IO support.
>
> I have a partial implementation of asynchronous file IO, built on top of
> libaio. If I wanted to contribute this to the project, would the correct
> place to do so be as part of icedtea, or upstream as part of openjdk?
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> Rupert
>

Upstream OpenJDK is the place to contribute (specifically
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio), but I think you'll find there
is a GNU/Linux implementation in
overlays/nio2/openjdk/jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/nio/ch/EPollPort.c
-- 
Andrew :-)

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