POSIX Asynchronous I/O

[jarun]

Currently nnn uses the cp and mv commands to copy and move files. Instead the POSIX Asynchronous I/O framework can be used to achieve the same.

For file attributes, functions like fchmod(), fchown(), futimens(), and setxattr() can be used after creating the new file to set its attributes to match the source file.

[jarun]

@KlzXS or @N-R-K ?

[N-R-K]

Wouldn't this be a huge amount of work? We'd need UI changes to show progress for when copying is ongoing and also some way to cancel the copy etc.

[jarun]

I think AIO would have the interfaces to query the progress, cancel etc.
We have to update the progress % somewhere in the two bars. Will check that part.

First I would like to see a basic file copy paste with attributes sample code snippet. We will work on the integration in nnn from there.

[jarun]

Note that we can also implement a keybind to see the overall progress in a different interface (like help).

[Hizenberg469]

Interested to contribute...

[jarun]

@Hizenberg469 initially please work on implementing a basic file copy paste using POSIX AIO along with the attributes.

If that goes fine, we will work on integrating it will nnn.

[Hizenberg469]

Ok, I will go through it...