On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi! >>>> > > So should we settle for memset()? I could update send updated patch >>>> > > then. >>>> > >>>> > Yeah, memset is what I typically have done. >>>> > >>>> >>>> Here comes updated patch. >>> >>> I've checked the latest man pages git and these changes aren't there >>> yet. Any comments? >> >> So, I'm struggling. What is the relationship between the io_*() >> functions in libaio and the io_*() syscalls? > > The io_* library calls are wrappers around the system calls. In some > cases, the wrappers simply pass the arguments on to the system call. In > other cases, there is some work performed by the library. > >> The page was attempting to document the system calls, which use >> aio_context_t structures, > > Well, aio_context_t is not a structure, it's just an unsigned long. > > I guess that we'll ultimately need the io_* syscalls documented in > chapter 2, and the library function documented in chapter 3, right? Jeff, Quick question: where is the canonical home of libaio? It's not easy to find. I'd like to ensure I'l looking at the latest sources, ideally by pulling from a VCS. 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
