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AIO_WRITE(2) | System Calls Manual | AIO_WRITE(2) |
NAME¶
aio_write — asynchronous write to a file (REALTIME)LIBRARY¶
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)SYNOPSIS¶
#include <aio.h> intaio_write(struct aiocb *iocb);
DESCRIPTION¶
The aio_write() system call allows the calling process to write iocb->aio_nbytes from the buffer pointed to by iocb->aio_buf to the descriptor iocb->aio_fildes. The call returns immediately after the write request has been enqueued to the descriptor; the write may or may not have completed at the time the call returns. If the request could not be enqueued, generally due to invalid arguments, the call returns without having enqueued the request. IfO_APPEND
is set for
iocb->aio_fildes, aio_write()
operations append to the file in the same order as the calls were made. If
O_APPEND
is not set for the file descriptor, the write
operation will occur at the absolute position from the beginning of the file
plus iocb->aio_offset.
If _POSIX_PRIORITIZED_IO
is defined, and the descriptor
supports it, then the enqueued operation is submitted at a priority equal to
that of the calling process minus iocb->aio_reqprio.
The iocb pointer may be subsequently used as an argument
to aio_return() and aio_error() in order
to determine return or error status for the enqueued operation while it is in
progress.
If the request is successfully enqueued, the value of
iocb->aio_offset can be modified during the request
as context, so this value must not be referenced after the request is
enqueued.
RESTRICTIONS¶
The Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure pointed to by iocb and the buffer that the iocb->aio_buf member of that structure references must remain valid until the operation has completed. For this reason, use of auto (stack) variables for these objects is discouraged. The asynchronous I/O control buffer iocb should be zeroed before the aio_write() system call to avoid passing bogus context information to the kernel. Modifications of the Asynchronous I/O Control Block structure or the buffer contents after the request has been enqueued, but before the request has completed, are not allowed. If the file offset in iocb->aio_offset is past the offset maximum for iocb->aio_fildes, no I/O will occur.RETURN VALUES¶
The aio_write() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.ERRORS¶
The aio_write() system call will fail if:- [
EAGAIN
] - The request was not queued because of system resource limitations.
- [
ENOSYS
] - The aio_write() system call is not supported.
- [
EBADF
] - The iocb->aio_fildes argument is invalid, or is not opened for writing.
- [
EINVAL
] - The offset iocb->aio_offset is not valid, the priority specified by iocb->aio_reqprio is not a valid priority, or the number of bytes specified by iocb->aio_nbytes is not valid.
- [
EBADF
] - The iocb->aio_fildes argument is invalid for writing.
- [
ECANCELED
] - The request was explicitly canceled via a call to aio_cancel().
- [
EINVAL
] - The offset iocb->aio_offset would be invalid.
SEE ALSO¶
aio_cancel(2), aio_error(2), aio_return(2), aio_suspend(2), aio_waitcomplete(2), siginfo(3), aio(4)STANDARDS¶
The aio_write() system call is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”) standard.HISTORY¶
The aio_write() system call first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.AUTHORS¶
This manual page was written by Wes Peters ⟨wes@softweyr.com⟩.BUGS¶
Invalid information in iocb->_aiocb_private may confuse the kernel.June 2, 1999 | Debian |