IO_GETEVENTS(2) 	   Linux Programmers Manual	      IO_GETEVENTS(2)



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

SYNOPSIS
       #include 
       #include 

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

       Link with -laio.

DESCRIPTION
       io_getevents()  attempts  to  read  at least min_nr events and up to nr
       events from the completion  queue  of  the  AIO	context  specified  by
       ctx_id.	timeout 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 and will be updated if not NULL and the opera
       tion blocks.

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, August
       2002.

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.

       The  wrapper  provided in libaio for io_getevents() does not follow the
       usual C library conventions for indicating error: 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.

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

COLOPHON
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       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux				  2008-07-04		       IO_GETEVENTS(2)