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| author | Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-10-09 01:35:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Wes Peters <wes@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-10-09 01:35:58 +0000 |
| commit | 9466cad206518d2f283dedec62968f12981ec9ae (patch) | |
| tree | 874ef9f553b5d075446b25db5b89a702e3bfa939 /lib | |
| parent | 2bc2b29270534caf13f0527c906137907ed32d7d (diff) | |
| download | src-9466cad206518d2f283dedec62968f12981ec9ae.tar.gz src-9466cad206518d2f283dedec62968f12981ec9ae.zip | |
Correct the description of the timeout argument. I've examined
the code, which seems to implement the POSIX requirements, and
have described the behavior here. Basically, it behaves the same
as select(2).
Noticed by: John Polstra
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=52041
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/aio_suspend.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/aio_suspend.2 b/lib/libc/sys/aio_suspend.2 index 39fd2e86875a..908492b1b42a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/aio_suspend.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/aio_suspend.2 @@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ is an array of .Ar niocb pointers to asynchronous I/O requests. Array members containing NULL will be silently ignored. +.Pp +If +.Ar timeout +is a non-nil pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to suspend. +If +.Ar timeout +is a nil pointer, the suspend blocks indefinitely. To effect a +poll, the +.Ar timeout +should point to a zero-value timespec structure. .Sh RETURN VALUES If one or more of the specified asynchronous I/O requests have completed, |