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,
       and is specified as a relative timeout in a structure of the  following
       form:

	   struct timespec {
	       time_t tv_sec;	   /* seconds */
	       long   tv_nsec;	   /* nanoseconds [0 .. 999999999] */
	   };

       The  specified  time will be rounded up to the system clock granularity
       and is guaranteed not to expire	 early.

       Specifying timeout as NULL means	 block	indefinitely  until  at	 least
       min_nr events have been obtained.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, io_getevents() returns the number of events read.  This may
       be 0, or a value less than min_nr, if the timeout expired.  It may also
       be  a  nonzero value less than min_nr, if the call was interrupted by a
       signal handler.

       For the failure return, see NOTES.

ERRORS
       EFAULT Either events or timeout is an invalid pointer.

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

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

       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 generating
       the error EINVAL.

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

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Linux				  2016-10-08		       IO_GETEVENTS(2)