aio_cancel(3) Library Functions Manual aio_cancel(3)
NAME
aio_cancel - cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O request
LIBRARY
Real-time library (librt, -lrt)
SYNOPSIS
#include <aio.h>
int aio_cancel(int fd, struct aiocb *aiocbp);
DESCRIPTION
The aio_cancel() function attempts to cancel outstanding asynchronous
I/O requests for the file descriptor fd. If aiocbp is NULL, all such
requests are canceled. Otherwise, only the request described by the
control block pointed to by aiocbp is canceled. (See aio(7) for a de-
scription of the aiocb structure.)
Normal asynchronous notification occurs for canceled requests (see
aio(7) and sigevent(3type)). The request return status (aio_return(3))
is set to -1, and the request error status (aio_error(3)) is set to
ECANCELED. The control block of requests that cannot be canceled is not
changed.
If the request could not be canceled, then it will terminate in the
usual way after performing the I/O operation. (In this case, aio_er-
ror(3) will return the status EINPROGRESSS.)
If aiocbp is not NULL, and fd differs from the file descriptor with
which the asynchronous operation was initiated, unspecified results oc-
cur.
Which operations are cancelable is implementation-defined.
RETURN VALUE
The aio_cancel() function returns one of the following values:
AIO_CANCELED
All requests were successfully canceled.
AIO_NOTCANCELED
At least one of the requests specified was not canceled because
it was in progress. In this case, one may check the status of
individual requests using aio_error(3).
AIO_ALLDONE
All requests had already been completed before the call.
-1 An error occurred. The cause of the error can be found by in-
specting errno.
ERRORS
EBADF fd is not a valid file descriptor.
ENOSYS aio_cancel() is not implemented.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ aio_cancel() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY
glibc 2.1. POSIX.1-2001.
EXAMPLES
See aio(7).
SEE ALSO
aio_error(3), aio_fsync(3), aio_read(3), aio_return(3), aio_suspend(3),
aio_write(3), lio_listio(3), aio(7)
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