Hi, It was noted on lkml that the fork behaviour is documented for the posix AIO calls, but not for the Linux native calls. Here is a patch which adds a small blurb that folks will hopefully find useful. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Upon fork, the child process does not inherit the io_context_t data structures returned by io_setup, and thus cannot submit further asynchronous I/O or reap event completions for said contexts. diff --git a/man2/fork.2 b/man2/fork.2 index ce93b3e..fb9008e 100644 --- a/man2/fork.2 +++ b/man2/fork.2 @@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ The child does not inherit timers from its parent The child does not inherit outstanding asynchronous I/O operations from its parent .RB ( aio_read (3), -.BR aio_write (3)). +.BR aio_write (3)), +nor does it inherit the asynchronous io_context returned by +.BR io_setup (2). .PP The process attributes in the preceding list are all specified in POSIX.1-2001. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
