From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Moyer Subject: Re: aio manuals Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110309180600.GA14533@saboteur.suse.cz> <20110316104356.GB32095@saboteur.suse.cz> <20110316152018.GG2096@saboteur.suse.cz> <20111013082918.GA17800@saboteur.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Tue, 8 May 2012 08:40:46 +1200") Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: Cyril Hrubis , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" writes: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" writes: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Cyril Hrubis wro= te: >>>> Hi! >>>>> > > So should we settle for memset()? I could update send updated= patch >>>>> > > then. >>>>> > >>>>> > Yeah, memset is what I typically have done. >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> Here comes updated patch. >>>> >>>> I've checked the latest man pages git and these changes aren't the= re >>>> yet. Any comments? >>> >>> So, I'm struggling. What is the relationship between the io_*() >>> functions in libaio and the io_*() syscalls? >> >> The io_* library calls are wrappers around the system calls. =C2=A0I= n some >> cases, the wrappers simply pass the arguments on to the system call.= =C2=A0In >> other cases, there is some work performed by the library. >> >>> The page was attempting to document the system calls, which use >>> aio_context_t structures, >> >> Well, aio_context_t is not a structure, it's just an unsigned long. >> >> I guess that we'll ultimately need the io_* syscalls documented in >> chapter 2, and the library function documented in chapter 3, right? > > Jeff, > > Quick question: where is the canonical home of libaio? It's not easy > to find. I'd like to ensure I'l looking at the latest sources, ideall= y > by pulling from a VCS. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=3Dlibaio.git Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html