In this case there's a wrapper provided by libaio,
but this page documents the raw syscall.
Also remove <linux/time.h> from the includes: 'struct timespec'
is already documented in system_data_types(7), where the
information is more up to date.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
man2/io_getevents.2 | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
@@ -9,16 +9,20 @@
io_getevents \- read asynchronous I/O events from the completion queue
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
-.BR "#include <linux/aio_abi.h>" " /* Defines needed types */"
-.BR "#include <linux/time.h>" " /* Defines 'struct timespec' */"
+.BR "#include <linux/aio_abi.h>" " /* Definition of " *io_* " types */"
+.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
+.B #include <unistd.h>
.PP
-.BI "int io_getevents(aio_context_t " ctx_id ", long " min_nr ", long " nr ,
-.BI " struct io_event *" events \
-", struct timespec *" timeout );
+.BI "int syscall(SYS_io_getevents, aio_context_t " ctx_id ,
+.BI " long " min_nr ", long " nr ", struct io_event *" events ,
+.BI " struct timespec *" timeout );
.fi
.PP
.IR Note :
-There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
+glibc provides no wrapper for
+.BR io_getevents (),
+necessitating the use of
+.BR syscall (2).
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IR Note :
this page describes the raw Linux system call interface.
@@ -94,10 +98,7 @@ The asynchronous I/O system calls first appeared in Linux 2.5.
is Linux-specific and should not be used in
programs that are intended to be portable.
.SH NOTES
-Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call.
-You could invoke it using
-.BR syscall (2).
-But instead, you probably want to use the
+You probably want to use the
.BR io_getevents ()
wrapper function provided by
.\" http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=libaio.git