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23 .TH AIO_CANCEL 3 2003-11-14 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
25 aio_cancel \- cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O request
29 .BI "int aio_cancel(int " fd ", struct aiocb *" aiocbp );
33 function attempts to cancel outstanding asynchronous I/O requests
34 for the file descriptor
38 is NULL, all such requests are canceled.
39 Otherwise, only the request
40 described by the control block pointed to by
44 Normal asynchronous notification occurs for canceled requests.
45 The request return status is set to \-1, and the request error status
48 The control block of requests that cannot be canceled is not changed.
54 differs from the file descriptor with which the asynchronous operation
55 was initiated, unspecified results occur.
57 Which operations are cancellable is implementation-defined.
58 .\" FreeBSD: not those on raw disk devices.
62 if all requests were successfully
66 when at least one of the
67 requests specified was not canceled because it was in progress.
68 In this case one may check the status of individual requests using
73 been completed already before this call.
74 When some error occurs, \-1 is returned, and
81 is not a valid file descriptor.