aio(4)

NAME

aio - asynchronous I/O

SYNOPSIS

To link into the kernel:
options VFS_AIO
To load as a kernel loadable module:
      kldload aio

DESCRIPTION

The aio facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O.

It is
available both as a kernel option for static inclusion and

as a dynamic
kernel module.

SEE ALSO

aio_cancel(2), aio_error(2), aio_read(2), aio_return(2),

aio_suspend(2),
aio_waitcomplete(2), aio_write(2), lio_listio(2), config(8),

kldload(8),
kldunload(8)

HISTORY

The aio facility appeared as a kernel option in FreeBSD 3.0.

The aio
kernel module appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

BSD October 24, 2002

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