MONTEREY, Calif. — A shift to asynchronous design styles is “inevitable” for digital computing systems, according to Ivan Sutherland, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

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