IOSETUP(2) Linux Programmer's Manual IOSETUP(2)

NAME
       iosetup - create an asynchronous I/O context

SYNOPSIS
       #include           /* Defines needed types */

       int iosetup(unsigned nrevents, aiocontextt *ctxidp);

       Note: There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.

DESCRIPTION
       The iosetup() system call creates an asynchronous I/O context suitable
       for concurrently processing nrevents operations.  The ctxidp argument
       must  not point to an AIO context that already exists, and must be ini‐
       tialized to 0 prior to the call.  On successful  creation  of  the  AIO
       context, *ctxidp is filled in with the resulting handle.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, iosetup() returns 0.  For the failure return, see NOTES.

ERRORS
       EAGAIN The  specified  nrevents  exceeds the user's limit of available
              events, as defined in /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr.

       EFAULT An invalid pointer is passed for ctxidp.

       EINVAL ctxidp is not initialized, or the specified  nrevents  exceeds
              internal limits.  nrevents should be greater than 0.

       ENOMEM Insufficient kernel resources are available.

       ENOSYS iosetup() is not implemented on this architecture.

VERSIONS
       The asynchronous I/O system calls first appeared in Linux 2.5.

CONFORMING TO
       iosetup()  is  Linux-specific  and should not be used in programs that
       are intended to be portable.

NOTES
       Glibc does not provide a wrapper function for this  system  call.   You
       could  invoke  it  using syscall(2).  But instead, you probably want to
       use the iosetup() wrapper function provided by libaio.

       Note that the libaio wrapper function uses a  different  type  (iocon‐
       textt *)  for the ctxidp argument.  Note also that the libaio wrapper
       does not follow the usual C library conventions for indicating  errors:
       on  error it returns a negated error number (the negative of one of the
       values  listed  in  ERRORS).   If  the  system  call  is  invoked   via
       syscall(2),  then  the  return  value follows the usual conventions for
       indicating an error: -1, with errno set  to  a  (positive)  value  that
       indicates the error.

SEE ALSO
       iocancel(2), iodestroy(2), iogetevents(2), iosubmit(2), aio(7)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                             2013-06-21                       IOSETUP(2)