Re: aio manuals

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Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi!
> The io_* manuals says that we should use aio_context_t as type for aio
> handle. That is wrong as the functions are defined with io_context_t
> (libaio.h). Patch attached.
>
> The only oustanding issue is that manual for io_setup says that we must
> set the io_context_t to 0 before use. And as the io_context_t is defined
> as opaque type (and it's defined as pointer now) the only way to
> initalize it without warnigs is memset(&ctxp, 0, sizeof(ctxp));. Perhaps
> this is not needed at all, as the ctpx is passed to the syscall and then
> initalized in the kernel (at least I haven't seem any checks in the
> codepath).

There are checks in place for this, so the man page should not change in
that regard.

Cheers,
Jeff
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