Re: bad news for bsdtar..

From: Richard Coleman (richardcoleman_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 04/24/04

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    Alfred Perlstein wrote:
    > Threads are pretty portable these days, obviously making it a compile
    > time option could work, but then again performance would be nice and
    > it is _our_ tar. ;)
    >
    > Also, unless you mean 'aio' or 'another process' by
    > "non-blocking/async IO" then I'm pretty sure you are wrong, as there
    > is no other way to do this, disk based files do not really support
    > SIGIO (async IO) or non-blocking IO (NBIO).

    I think it is much more important that libarchive be clean, reliabable,
    and maintainable than squeeze out the last bit of performance. That
    better serves the goal of libarchive being embedded in everything
    (tar, pax, cpio, pkg_*, etc).

    Tim has done a great job with this so far.

    Richard Coleman
    richardcoleman@mindspring.com

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