AsyncSeek trait

[Nemo157]

I've def been missing an AsyncSeek impl. We've been looking to implement a filesystem API for Romio, and that's one of the traits we need. Tokio has a counterpart directly implemented on the File struct, but it seems being able to generalize it would be ideal.

Originally posted by @yoshuawuyts in #1510 (comment)

[Nemo157]

@yoshuawuyts do you know if there are actual async implementations of seeking available anywhere? I assume the FS API for Romio would just be doing something like a blocking seek on a thread-pool?

I guess it still makes sense to add the trait as an operation that code will want to use, even if there aren't any implementations that can cheaply support it yet.

[yoshuawuyts]

@yoshuawuyts do you know if there are actual async implementations of seeking available anywhere? I assume the FS API for Romio would just be doing something like a blocking seek on a thread-pool?

Yeah, that's our thinking for Romio currently. Ideally we could later investigate using AIO / io_uring to have true async fs calls, but until then having the trait available would be nice for all implementations (:

[LucioFranco]

Just gonna leave this here, we have a PR open in tokio for sometime around this, may be useful tokio-rs/tokio#785

[yoshuawuyts]

Thanks so much @taiki-e! 🎉

[cramertj]

Yeah-- huge thanks @taiki-e! All of your recent work on futures-rs has been incredibly helpful <3