Hi Jon, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I noticed that aio(7) contains a description of the each function, > e.g. aio_read(3). I noticed that descriptions are a little different. > Could the text be the same for both? I don't intend this to sound > pedantic! The pages are great :) > > > e.g. > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man7/aio.7.html > > "aio_cancel(3) Attempt to cancel outstanding I/O requests on a specified file > descriptor." > > "aio_suspend(3) Suspend the caller until one or more of a specified set of I/O > requests completes." > > > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/aio_cancel.3.html > "aio_cancel - cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O request" > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/pages/man3/aio_suspend.3.html > "aio_suspend - wait for asynchronous I/O operation or timeout" The one line descriptions in the SH section of man pages are usually always very short. aio(7) had room to allow for longer descriptions. I don't think any change is needed. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
