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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-10-02 15:36:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-10-03 17:12:29 +0200 |
| commit | ba9e24aa6923a1fcea77c2df86a0a785066f599e (patch) | |
| tree | f80992b7628f2dda941ba546f9241fedcdc06be8 /man3/aio_error.3 | |
| parent | 2b014d760da0f42f5422becba29d2851d7d6376d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ba9e24aa6923a1fcea77c2df86a0a785066f599e.tar.gz | |
aio_error.3: Wording improvements in RETURN VALUE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/aio_error.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/aio_error.3 | 30 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man3/aio_error.3 b/man3/aio_error.3 index 0de233c8f3..55e55506fc 100644 --- a/man3/aio_error.3 +++ b/man3/aio_error.3 @@ -41,25 +41,27 @@ for a description of the .I aiocb structure.) .SH "RETURN VALUE" -This function returns -.B EINPROGRESS +This function returns one of the following: +.IP * 3 +.BR EINPROGRESS , if the request has not been completed yet. -It returns -.B ECANCELED +.IP * +.BR ECANCELED , if the request was canceled. -It returns 0 if the request completed successfully. -Otherwise an error value is returned, the same value that would have -been stored in the +.IP * +0, if the request completed successfully. +.IP * +A positive error, if the asynchronous I/O operation failed. +This is the same value that would have been stored in the .I errno -variable in case of a synchronous -.IR read , -.IR write , -.IR fsync , +variable in the case of a synchronous +.BR read (2), +.BR write (2), +.BR fsync (2), or -.I fdatasync -request. -On error, the error value is returned. +.BR fdatasync (2) +call. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EINVAL |