Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 23:32:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Dmitry Sychov <accelware@accelware.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aio_read() broken functionality. Message-ID: <3A0B9669.B9FCCF94@softweyr.com> References: <002001c04a91$10f0be20$1ec730d4@dima> <20001109132339.B5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * Dmitry Sychov <accelware@accelware.com> [001109 13:06] wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > According to manual the aio_offset field of the "aiocb" structure
> > is ignored in the aio_read() call. So one can read the file only from
> > beginning. Very bad for me. :-(
> >
> > Will this bug be fixed in FreeBSD 5.0?
>
> Hrm, parsing through the kernel code it looks like this is just a
> bug in the manpage, basically aio_offset doesn't look like it's
> ignored, can you try to use aio_offset and report if it works or
> not.
It was probably correct when the manpage was written. This seems to be
yet another bit of doco that has not been updated along with the system.
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