IO::AIO

IO::AIO implements fully asynchronous I/O (not non-blocking I/O) that lets your program stay in control and interactive even when doing heavy disk (or other) I/O. It provides asynchronous versions of read(), write(), open(), stat(), unlink(), rename(), utime(), readlink(), and most other standard syscalls as well as interfaces to sendfile(), readahead(), and other esoteric syscalls, complete with emulation on systems that don't support them. It also offers convenience functions to load whole files and more. It fits naturally into any event loop model, supports 9 priorities and request grouping.