> native evented I/O API provided by operating system I know it's just semantics but I recently learned that some people actually believe that synchronous I/O

> native evented I/O API provided by operating system I know it's just semantics but I recently learned that some people actually believe that synchronous I/O API provided by OS is actually… well synchronous I/O. Obviously there cannot be any synchronous I/O going on in any modern operating system.