This is aliased to IORING_FEAT_NATIVE_WORKERS, which was shipped in the
same kernel release. A separate flag is useful because the features are
unrelated, so user code testing for IORING_FEAT_NATIVE_WORKERS before
using FILES_SKIP is not very obvious in intent.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man/io_uring_register.2 | 10 ++++++++--
src/include/liburing/io_uring.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/io_uring_register.2 b/man/io_uring_register.2
index 5326a87..c71ce40 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_register.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_register.2
@@ -156,8 +156,14 @@ since 5.5.
File descriptors can be skipped if they are set to
.B IORING_REGISTER_FILES_SKIP.
Skipping an fd will not touch the file associated with the previous
-fd at that index. Available since 5.12.
-
+fd at that index. Available since 5.12. Availability of this feature is
+indicated by the presence of the
+.B IORING_FEAT_FILES_SKIP
+bit in the
+.I features
+field of the
+.I io_uring_params
+structure.
.TP
.B IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES
diff --git a/src/include/liburing/io_uring.h b/src/include/liburing/io_uring.h
index 5a3cb90..091dcf7 100644
--- a/src/include/liburing/io_uring.h
+++ b/src/include/liburing/io_uring.h
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ struct io_uring_params {
#define IORING_FEAT_SQPOLL_NONFIXED (1U << 7)
#define IORING_FEAT_EXT_ARG (1U << 8)
#define IORING_FEAT_NATIVE_WORKERS (1U << 9)
+#define IORING_FEAT_FILES_SKIP IORING_FEAT_NATIVE_WORKERS
/*
* io_uring_register(2) opcodes and arguments
--
2.31.1
