Bug 26762 - io_cancel manpage documented required headers are incomplete/wrong
Summary: io_cancel manpage documented required headers are incomplete/wrong
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2011-01-14 23:16 UTC by Garrett Cooper
Modified: 2012-08-16 06:25 UTC (History)
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Description Garrett Cooper 2011-01-14 23:16:43 UTC
io_cancel(2) claims:

IO_CANCEL(2)               Linux Programmer’s Manual              IO_CANCEL(2)

NAME
       io_cancel - cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O operation

SYNOPSIS
       #include <libaio.h>

       int io_cancel(aio_context_t ctx_id, struct iocb *iocb,
                     struct io_event *result);

       Link with -laio.

This doesn't compile though:

$ gcc -c test_iocancel.c
test_iocancel.c: In function ‘main’:
test_iocancel.c:5: error: ‘aio_context_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
test_iocancel.c:5: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
test_iocancel.c:5: error: for each function it appears in.)
test_iocancel.c:5: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘ctx’
test_iocancel.c:9: error: ‘ctx’ undeclared (first use in this function)
$ cat test_iocancel.c 
#include <libaio.h>
int
main(void)
{
	aio_context_t ctx;
	struct iocb cb;
	struct io_event res;

	return io_cancel(ctx, &cb, &res);
}
$ grep -r aio_context_t /usr/include/
/usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h:typedef unsigned long	aio_context_t;
$

The manpages are based off of Fedora 13, as is the image that I'm currently running in VMware fusion.

$ yum list installed libaio
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
libaio.i686                 0.3.109-2.fc13                 @released/$releasever
Comment 1 Michael Kerrisk 2012-08-16 06:25:44 UTC
There have been various recent changes to the io_* man pages which I think probably address this report. If, after checking the latest version of the pages, you believe otherwise, please re-open. Closing for now.

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