Any networking program doing blocking I/O is doing it wrong. Your I/O should only be done synchronously if it's non-blocking. Now for disk I/O, it's a more mu

Any networking program doing blocking I/O is doing it wrong. Your I/O should only be done synchronously if it's non-blocking. Now for disk I/O, it's a more muddy thing, it's actually quite different from networking since it's more transparently managed by the operating system.