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

NAME
       io_getevents - read asynchronous I/O events from the completion queue

SYNOPSIS
       #include <linux/aio_abi.h>	  /* Defines needed types */
       #include <linux/time.h>		  /* Defines 'struct timespec' */

       int io_getevents(aio_context_t ctx_id, long min_nr, long nr,
			struct io_event *events, struct timespec *timeout);

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

DESCRIPTION
       The  io_getevents() system call attempts to read at least min_nr events
       and up to nr events from the completion queue of the AIO context speci‐
       fied  by	 ctx_id.  The timeout argument specifies the amount of time to
       wait for events, where a NULL  timeout  waits  until  at	 least	min_nr
       events have been seen.  Note that timeout is relative.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  io_getevents() returns the number of events read: 0 if no
       events are available, or less than min_nr if the timeout	 has  elapsed.
       For the failure return, see NOTES.

ERRORS
       EFAULT Either events or timeout is an invalid pointer.

       EINVAL ctx_id  is  invalid.   min_nr  is	 out  of range or nr is out of
	      range.

       EINTR  Interrupted by a signal handler; see signal(7).

       ENOSYS io_getevents() is not implemented on this architecture.

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

CONFORMING TO
       io_getevents() 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 io_getevents() wrapper function provided by libaio.

       Note  that  the	libaio wrapper function uses a different type (io_con‐
       text_t) for the ctx_id 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.

BUGS
       An invalid ctx_id may cause a segmentation fault instead of  genenerat‐
       ing the error EINVAL.

SEE ALSO
       io_cancel(2), io_destroy(2), io_setup(2), io_submit(2), aio(7), time(7)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.54 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				  2013-04-08		       IO_GETEVENTS(2)
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