Re: aio_cancel

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Hi Jon,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a query about the ask about the aio_cancel description please.
>
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/aio_cancel.3.html
>
> "Normal asynchronous notification occurs for canceled requests.  The request
>       return status is set to -1, and the request error status is set
> to ECANCELED."
>
> I would like to ask about this description. Could the detail of
> "request return status" and "request error status" be described
> please.
>
> My assumption
>
> "request return status" -- perhaps the value returned by aio_return()?
> "request error status" -- not sure. maybe aio_error() ?
>
> Thank you for taking a look into this.

Your assumption is correct. I added some words to the man page for
version 3.35 to clarify this.

Cheers,

Michael


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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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