[PATCH] io_submit.2: acknowledge possibility of short return

Sage Weil
2017-09-07T20:44:28Z

Note that the return value may be a value less than nr
if not all iocbs were queued at once. This would have saved
me an embarrassing amount of time.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
---
man2/io_submit.2 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/io_submit.2 b/man2/io_submit.2
index 36465b64b..77ba34671 100644
--- a/man2/io_submit.2
+++ b/man2/io_submit.2
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ which will be submitted to context \fIctx_id\fP.
On success,
.BR io_submit ()
returns the number of \fIiocb\fPs submitted (which may be
-0 if \fInr\fP is zero).
+less than \fInr\fP, or 0 if \fInr\fP is zero).
For the failure return, see NOTES.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
--
2.13.3

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