What is the status of POSIX asynchronous I/O (AIO)?

Question

There are pages scattered around the web that describe POSIX AIO facilities in varying amounts of detail. None of them are terribly recent. It\'s not clear what, exactly,

Answer 1

A libtorrent developer provides a report on this: http://blog.libtorrent.org/2012/10/asynchronous-disk-io/