AsynchronousFileChannel.open() - is it blocking?

[Vitaly Davidovich]

I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw in async/sync vs
non-blocking/blocking.  Can you clarify that part? In general, non-blocking
is analogous to async and blocking to synchronous in terms of whether the
caller is blocked or not -- you can certainly have a synchronous/blocking
call that's actually implemented asynchronously internally, but from the
caller's perspective it's a blocking call as control does not return until
the method completes.

Are you instead asking whether any physical i/o will be triggered?

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu at gmail.com> wrote:

> A synchronous action can be blocking or non-blocking. I'm asking the
> blocking aspect.
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It's probably safe to assume that any method that doesn't return a
> Future or
> > accepts a CompletionHandler runs synchronously.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is open() a potentially blocking action? Apparently so because some
> >> sanity checking (e.g. existence of the file) requires disk spin. If
> >> that's the case, it should probably be explicitly documented.
> >>
> >> And after open(), are following methods blocking or non-blocking?
> >>
> >>    size();
> >>    truncate();
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Zhong Yu
> >
> >
>
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