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aio_cancel(2)               BSD System Calls Manual              aio_cancel(2)


NAME

     aio_cancel -- cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O operation (REALTIME)


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <aio.h>

     int
     aio_cancel(int fildes, struct aiocb *aiocbp);


DESCRIPTION

     The aio_cancel() system call cancels the outstanding asynchronous I/O
     request for the file descriptor specified in fildes.  If aiocbp is speci-
     fied, only that specific asynchronous I/O request is cancelled.

     Normal asynchronous notification occurs for cancelled requests.  Requests
     complete with an error result of ECANCELED.


RESTRICTIONS

     The aio_cancel() system call does not cancel asynchronous I/O requests
     for raw disk devices.  The aio_cancel() system call will always return
     AIO_NOTCANCELED for file descriptors associated with raw disk devices.


RETURN VALUES

     The aio_cancel() system call returns -1 to indicate an error, or one of
     the following:

     [AIO_ALLDONE]
                   All of the requests meeting the criteria have finished.

     [AIO_CANCELED]
                   All outstanding requests meeting the criteria specified
                   were cancelled.

     [AIO_NOTCANCELED]
                   Some requests were not cancelled, status for the requests
                   should be checked with aio_error(2).


ERRORS

     An error return from aio_cancel() indicates:

     [EBADF]            The fildes argument is not a valid file descriptor.


SEE ALSO

     aio_error(2), aio_read(2), aio_return(2), aio_suspend(2), aio_write(2),
     aio(4)


STANDARDS

     The aio_cancel() system call is expected to conform to the IEEE Std
     1003.1 (``POSIX.1'') standard.


HISTORY

     The aio_cancel() system call first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.  The first
     functional implementation of aio_cancel() appeared in FreeBSD 4.0.


AUTHORS

     This manual page was originally written by Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>.
     Christopher M Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu> updated it when
     aio_cancel() was implemented for FreeBSD 4.0.

BSD                            January 19, 2000                            BSD

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