Re: [PATCH] [RFC] xfs: wire up aio_fsync method

Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-17T14:02:04Z

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:06:55PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Talking about documentation: The kernel aio manpages (io_*.2) seems
> > to not really be very useful, mostly because they don't explain how
> > to set up the iocbs. Michael, any idea how to get started to improve
> > this?
>
> Well, it just needs someone knowledgeable to fill the gaps, and
> perhaps add an example program. I don't have that knowledge
> offhand myself...

Dave pointed out that there actually are man pages for the ops, they
just come with libaio instead of the man-pages project. I'll send you
a patch to refer to them.

The libaio man pages could also use some work, I'll see if I can find
time for that as well.