Linux and I/O completion ports?

Question

Using winsock, you can configure sockets or seperate I/O operations to \"overlap\". This means that calls to perform I/O are returned immediately, while the actual operation

Answer 1

IOCP is pronounced "asynchronous I/O" on various UNIX platforms:

• POSIX AIO is the standard
• Kernel AIO, epoll and io_uring seem to be a Linux-specific implementations
• Kqueue is the *BSD and Mac OSX implementation
• Message Passing Interface (MPI) is an option for high-performance computing
• obligatory Boost reference - Boost.Asio