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

Michael Kerrisk (man-opages)
2017-09-14T12:42:31Z

Hello Sage,

On 09/07/2017 10:44 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. Applied!

Cheers,

Michael

> 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
>
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