futures/fibers and synchronous file API

[Roman Gershman]

Hi,

Is it possible to use modern async primitives like future/fibers with files IO? 

Lets say I need to read a large and slow file and I have only a synchronous API (posix open()).

Can I somehow make it work with background worker thread that reads the file and sends data to fiber task?

Files is just an example.

* I understand how fibers works if everything in the system works together with them and is fully cooperative and non-blocking (i.e. waits on each lock/block) but how do I integrate with

synchronous third-party code? How can we communicate with other threads inside a fiber?

Cheers,