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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:25:09 -0400 From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com> To: Zubin Dittia <zubin@...tri.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: libaio asynchronous syscall io_getevents blocks on error Zubin Dittia <zubin@...tri.com> writes: > I'm writing a program that uses the kernel's io_submit/io_getevents > system calls. What I would like to be able to do is submit N > operations for i/o on different files, and then call io_getevents with > min_nr = nr = N and a timeout of NULL, so that I can block until all N > operations have completed. This works great, except when one of the > operations has an error (eg., if one of the descriptors is invalid). > In this case, the call to io_getevents appears to block indefinitely. > Shouldn't an error on one of the submitted operations count as a > completion event for that operation, so I can check the error code > when the call returns? Any help would be appreciated. Did you check the return value of io_submit? Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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