[Info-vax] QIO Writes to a mailbox

[Bob Koehler]

In article <j9f1uf$8v5$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:

> No, of course not, since it's an (kind of software) interrupt. But
> nevertheless. The AST must have fired before you make the next QIO.
> I'm not sure what you do, HIB maybe ? Let's say you'll HIB.

   Not when I code asynchronous I/O.  I'll queue up 8 different buffers,
   with 8 different IOSB, pass an index via the ASTPRM, and have at.

   Then I'll go off and do other processing and let the AST take care of
   each I/O as it completes, gets canceled, ...