On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Given that there are consumers of the libaio library, I will continue to >>> maintain it. So, I don't see a need to tell folks not to use it. >> >> I meant to ask... So yes there are consumers of the library, but I >> wonder if there are actually consumers (outside the library itself) >> of those 5 io_*(2) syscall wrappers. Any idea on that? > > I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you referring to these > calls? > > io_setup > io_getevents > io_submit > io_destroy > io_cancel
Yes, I meant: are apps using these wrappers *directly*, rather than using the POSIX aio* interrfaces (which then invoke 5 aforementioned wrappers). > If so, then yes, I would say that every application that links with > libaio uses these calls. And it sounds like you are saying the former then. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
