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 should I consider when determining what `ALLOC_MAX` should be in this type of I/O loop?
For, e.g. determining an amount of memory that is safe to allocate for processing file or device with this type of I/O loop:
HANDLE hFile /* = file open with GENERIC_READ */;
LARGE_INTEGER liSize;
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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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Can multi-threading improve performance of an IO-bound process?
I am trying to understand the difference between CPU Bound vs IO Bound process. ChatGPT suggested that multi-threading/parallel processing can help a CPU bound process; However, I think that having ...
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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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File I/O - How HDD or SSD works with OS file system? [closed]
I've studied how data transfer with secondary storage(HDD or SSD) works.
Would you mind to check that my understanding is correct?
File system
block is basic read/write logical unit which is used in ...
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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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How does a process know the location of another's stdout, stderr, stdin? [closed]
I want to know how standard I/O channels are handled in more depth.
Processes have their own stdout, stderr, stdin channels where they can read/write. As far as I know, these are stored as temporary ...
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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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Is background long running thread a good choice for disk IO?
I am building a storage engine software that allows concurrent data writing, now I have two different choices here:
Method 1. Background Long-Running Thread
Multiple user threads write to their own ...
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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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Applying function to file line by line or read entirely into structure first?
I've often found myself with the need to develop tools that process large files over a network and perform an operation to every element in that file. An element may be an individual line or an object ...
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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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What Actually Indicates the end of a Socket Input/Output feed?
In the most abstract, platform agnostic way possible, can someone explain what actually determines the end of input/output a socket? Is this something the programming language itself typically handles ...
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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?
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