How does the IO manager handle reading regular files?

[Ben Gamari]

Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> writes:

> I just got reminded that epoll() has no effect on regular files on
> Linux by reading an nginx article [1] [2] and why that is [3] [4].
>
> By what means does the IO manager make reads (wraps around the read()
> syscall on Linux) non-blocking?
>
> Does it always use read() in `foreign import safe` (or
> `interruptible`) so that an OS thread is spawned?
>
> It would be great if somebody could point me to the code where that's
> done (not again: for *regular* files).
>
I believe the relevant implementation is the RawIO instance defined in
GHC.IO.FD. The read implementation in particular is
GHC.IO.FD.readRawBufferPtr. There is a useful Note directly above
this function.

Cheers,

- Ben
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