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27.Dd June 2, 1999
28.Dt AIO_SUSPEND 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm aio_suspend
32.Nd suspend until asynchronous I/O operations or timeout complete (REALTIME)
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb librt
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In aio.h
37.Ft int
38.Fn aio_suspend "const struct aiocb * const iocbs[]" "int niocb" "const struct timespec * timeout"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Fn aio_suspend
42function suspends the calling process until at least one of the
43specified asynchronous I/O requests have completed, a signal is
44delivered, or the
45.Fa timeout
46has passed.
47.Pp
48.Fa iocbs
49is an array of
50.Fa niocb
51pointers to asynchronous I/O requests.
52Array members containing NULL will be silently ignored.
53.Pp
54If
55.Fa timeout
56is a non-nil pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to suspend.
57If
58.Fa timeout
59is a nil pointer, the suspend blocks indefinitely.
60To effect a poll, the
61.Fa timeout
62should point to a zero-value timespec structure.
63.Sh RETURN VALUES
64If one or more of the specified asynchronous I/O requests have
65completed,
66.Fn aio_suspend
67returns 0.
68Otherwise it returns -1 and sets
69.Va errno
70to indicate the error, as enumerated below.
71.Sh ERRORS
72The
73.Fn aio_suspend
74function will fail if:
75.Bl -tag -width Er
76.It Bq Er EAGAIN
77the
78.Fa timeout
79expired before any I/O requests completed.
80.It Bq Er EINVAL
81.Fa iocbs
82contains more than
83.Dv AIO_LISTIO_MAX
84asynchronous I/O requests, or at least one of the requests is not
85valid.
86.It Bq Er EINTR
87the suspend was interrupted by a signal.
88.El
89.Sh SEE ALSO
90.Xr aio_cancel 3 ,
91.Xr aio_error 3 ,
92.Xr aio_read 3 ,
93.Xr aio_suspend 3 ,
94.Xr aio_write 3
95.Sh STANDARDS
96.Fn aio_suspend
97is expected to conform to the
98.St -p1003.2
99standard.
100.Sh HISTORY
101The
102.Nm
103function first appeared in
104.Fx 3.0 .
105.Sh AUTHORS
106This
107manual page was written by
108.An Wes Peters Aq Mt wes@softweyr.com .
109