I gave the new buffer mode another try. Unfortunately there are a couple of bugs. I don't really want to start changing things around, especially because I am not sure how it was intended to work. I will just dump a list here, some are questions. All this happens when using buffer mode for both directions in nonblocking callback mode.
1) Stdio.File calls intput_from from the read cb but does not properly handle the return -1 case and does not check errno(). The close callback is never called. input_from also reactivates the read event, so the read will reoccur for ever.
2) set_buffer_mode does __fd_set_output( this ) which leads to add() calling Stdio.File()->write() calling output_to(), which leads to data written in the wrong order initially. I guess __fd_set_output( ::write ) should be the right thing to do here?
3) Why does the io_call_write call triggered by add() only write a maximum of 100 bytes?
arne