Questions tagged [io]
Input/Output of data to/from a system. This usually implies file storage or network communication, but may also mean interaction with a user through a user interface.
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How to structuring a read/write submodule in OOP Python
I am developing a python package that needs to be able to read/write from/to multiple formats. E.g. foo format and bar format. I am trying to contain the functions relating to each format in a single ...
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What does it mean to be "truly" asynchronous?
Reading the Proactor pattern paper, specifically this part: I/O Completion Ports in Windows NT: The Windows NT operating system implements the Proactor pattern. Various Asynchronous Operations such ...
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Handling IO operations through a server and building the UI using a separate framework/application
I am trying to build a file editor, and I wanted to build the UI using Flutter. However I wanted to implement IO operations (reading a file, applying changes, etc) in Rust. The reason I would like to ...
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Operating systems - whose responsibility is it to coordinate process I/O requests?
I am reading Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems. I want to understand a particular concept regarding processes and blocking system calls, specifically with regards to I/O. I assume threads might ...
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Is Epoll/Multiplexing suitable to make network requests instead of "listen to" incoming requests?
I'm studying asynchronous IO, concurrent models for IO and how things works on windows, linux and most used web frameworks. I'm struggling on understanding why single-threaded event loops like the one ...
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Best way to reduce database writes?
I couldn't find a similar enough thread, so i'm making a new one. My question is about reducing database writes. Context is that I have an application which increments a number in a database every ...
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Are streams of binary data considered a form of bit banging?
Are streams of binary data considered a form of bit banging? Does this definition change if the array is buffered? I am referring software which handles binary data on a general purpose CPU; for ...
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Can a C# AnonymousPipeServerStream create a non .NET client?
For example, if I want to write a daemon program in C# that uses anonymous pipes to communicate with programs written in another language, is this both possible and feasible? I ask because I intend ...
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