"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=libaio.git Cheers, Jeff -- 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
