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And also user defined events and timers(through the new thread pool API)

This is all possible on Linux today with timerfd [0] and eventfd [1]. You can use the same mechanism for async file-IO with libaio and the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD [2] flag.

Granted libaio only really works well on XFS [3], and even there it has issues.

[0] - https://lwn.net/Articles/251413/

[1] - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/eventfd.2.html

[2] - https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~vass/linux-aio.txt

[3] - http://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/

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