aio_read(2) aio_read(2)
NAME [Toc] [Back]
aio_read() - start an asynchronous read operation
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
#include <aio.h>
int aio_read(struct aiocb *aiocbp);
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
The aio_read() function allows the calling process to perform an
asynchronous read from a previously opened file. The function call
returns when the read operation has been enqueued for processing. At
this point, processing of the read operation may proceed concurrently
with execution of the calling process or thread.
If an error condition is detected that prevents the read request from
being enqueued, aio_read() returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the
cause of the failure. Once the read operation has been successfully
enqueued, an aio_error() and aio_return() function referencing the
aiocb referred to by aiocbp must be used to determine its status and
any error conditions, including those normally reported by read().
The request remains enqueued and consumes process and system resources
until aio_return() is called.
The aio_read() function allows the calling process to read aiocbp-
>aio_nbytes from the file associated with aiocbp->aio_fildes into the
buffer pointed to by aiocbp->aio_buf. The priority of the read
operation is reduced by the value of aiocbp->aio_reqprio, which must
be a value between 0 (zero) and a maximum value which can be obtained
using the sysconf() call with the argument _SC_AIO_PRIO_DELTA_MAX. A
value of 0 (zero) yields no reduction in priority. The aiocbp-
>aio_lio_opcode field is ignored.
The read operation takes place at the absolute position in the file
given by aiocbp->aio_offset, as if lseek() were called immediately
prior to the operation with offset equal to aiocbp->aio_offset and
whence set to SEEK_SET. However, the value of the file offset is
never changed by asynchronous I/O operations.
Deallocating or altering the contents of memory referred to by aiocbp
while an asynchronous read operation is outstanding (i.e. before
aio_return() has been called) may produce unpredictable results.
If aiocbp->aio_sigevent is a valid signal event structure, then the
designated signal will be delivered when the requested asynchronous
read operation completes.
To use this function, link in the realtime library by specifying -lrt
on the compiler or linker command line.
Hewlett-Packard Company - 1 - HP-UX 11i Version 2: August 2003
aio_read(2) aio_read(2)
RETURN VALUE [Toc] [Back]
aio_read() returns the following values:
0 Successful completion, the operation has been
enqueued.
-1 Failure. The requested operation was not
enqueued. errno is set to indicate the error.
The return value from aio_read() reflects the success or failure of
enqueuing the requested read operation for asynchronous processing.
aio_read() fails if an error in the function call is immediately
detected, or if system resource limits prevent the request from being
enqueued. Other error conditions are reported asynchronously and must
be retrieved with aio_error() and aio_return().
ERRORS [Toc] [Back]
If aio_read() detects one of the following error conditions, errno is
set to the indicated value:
[EAGAIN] The request could not be queued either because of
a resource shortage or because the per-process or
system-wide limit on asynchronous I/O operations
or asynchronous threads would have been exceeded.
[EINVAL] aiocb->aio_sigevent is not a valid address in the
process virtual address space.
[EINVAL] The parameters of the indicated sigevent in
aiocb->aio_sigevent are invalid.
[EEXIST] The aiocbp is already in use for another
asynchronous I/O operation.
Once the read request has been enqueued by aio_read(), the following
errors, in addition to all of the errors normally reported by the
read() function, may be reported asynchronously by a subsequent call
to aio_error() or aio_return() referencing its aiocb.
[EBADF] The aiocbp->aio_fildes was not a valid file
descriptor open for reading.
[EINVAL] The value of aiocbp->aio_reqprio is not valid.
[EINVAL] The value of aiocbp->aio_nbytes is invalid.
[EINVAL] The file offset implied by aiocbp->aio_offset or
aiocbp->aio_offset+aiocbp->aio_nbytes are not
valid for the file at the time the request is
processed.
Hewlett-Packard Company - 2 - HP-UX 11i Version 2: August 2003
aio_read(2) aio_read(2)
[ECANCELED] The read operation was canceled due to a
subsequent call to aio_cancel().
EXAMPLES [Toc] [Back]
The following code sequence and call to aio_read() starts an
asynchronous read operation.
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <aio.h>
char buf[4096];
ssize_t retval; ssize_t nbytes;
struct aiocb myaiocb;
bzero( &myaiocb, sizeof (struct aiocb));
myaiocb.aio_fildes = open( "/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
myaiocb.aio_offset = 0;
myaiocb.aio_buf = (void *) buf;
myaiocb.aio_nbytes = sizeof (buf);
myaiocb.aio_sigevent.sigev_notify = SIGEV_NONE;
retval = aio_read( &myaiocb );
if (retval) perror("aio_read:");
/* continue processing */
...
/* wait for completion */
while ( (retval = aio_error( &myaiocb) ) == EINPROGRESS) ;
/* free the aiocb */
nbytes = aio_return( &myaiocb);
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
aio_cancel(2), aio_error(2), aio_fsync(2), aio_return(2),
aio_suspend(2), aio_write(2), lio_listio(2), read(2), aio(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE [Toc] [Back]
aio_read(): POSIX Realtime Extensions, IEEE Std 1003.1b
Hewlett-Packard Company - 3 - HP-UX 11i Version 2: August 2003 [ Back ] |
