Heavy Kaffe I/O at startup

[Archie Cobbs]

Godmar Back writes:
> > In other words, how does stdio differ from "a simple stdio-like
> > buffer scheme" in the sense of thread safety?
> 
> fread calls read(2) directly.
> 
> The "read" you see in jar.c is actually a #define Kaffe_syscall.read(), 
> which calls jthreadedRead(), blocking the thread (and not the whole process)
> if the I/O can't succeed.

Ah, that is very tricky.. (and, arguably, bad practice because
it's misleading).. but anyway now I understand -- thanks!

> I think the answer is to write a minimal stdio that calls our "read" 
> (i.e., the jsyscall Kaffe_syscall.read) instead of going directly to
> the system, as the "real" stdio does.

Yes.. I also like the mmap approach, though it's presumably less portable.

-Archie

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