On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 11:59 AM Tage Johansson <tage.j.li...@posteo.net>
wrote:

> On 7/6/2023 7:06 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
>
> - After calling for example aio_notify_read(3), can I know that the next
> reading from the file descriptor would block?
>
> No, you have to call again aio_get_direction() and poll again until the
> event happens.
>
> Well, what I mean is:
>
> After calling aio_notify_read, if aio_get_direction returns
> AIO_DIRECTION_READ or AIO_DIRECTION_BOTH, can I know that the reading on
> the file descriptor actually blocked?
>

Yes - it never blocks.


> Or might there be cases when aio_notify_read returns and the next
> direction includes a read and there is still more data to read on the file
> descriptor?
>

Sure it is expected that the socket is readable but more data will be
available
later...


> I guess this is the case, but I must know or the client may hang
> unexpectedly.
>

Libnbd uses non-blocking socket so it will never hang.
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