.TH io_fd 3 .SH NAME io_fd \- prepare descriptor for io_wait .SH SYNTAX .B #include int \fBio_fd\fP(int64 fd); .SH DESCRIPTION If you want to use io_canread() and io_canwrite() on a descriptor, you have to use io_wait() on it first, and io_wait() has to know which descriptors you are interested in. Use io_fd() for this. io_pipe and io_socketpair already call io_fd for you. Waiting on descriptors only works for sockets, fifos and pipes. It may also work on devices and TTYs, but that is platform dependent -- you should not rely on that. It does not work on files. .SH "RETURN VALUE" io_fd returns 1 on success, 0 on error. .SH "SEE ALSO" io_wait(3), io_wantread(3), io_canread(3), io_eagain(3), io_nonblock(3)