Threads are still the best way to get asynchronous filesystem I/O in a reliable way. I know that people will reply with various explanations of how to do it for

Threads are still the best way to get asynchronous filesystem I/O in a reliable way. I know that people will reply with various explanations of how to do it for some cases some of the time; however, nobody will post a way that works as reliably as threads, because none exist. At the same time, threads are a vile abomination and we should shun them whenever possible. Computers are terrible, aren't they?