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Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly
- From: Eric Wong <normalperson at yhbt dot net>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org,"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>,Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, hpa at zytor dot com,keescook at chromium dot org
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 22:48:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly
- References: <201301242314.47793.vapier@gentoo.org><5109A662.7050101@zytor.com><20130131073057.GQ20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx><Pine.LNX.4.64.1301312309490.13481@digraph.polyomino.org.uk><510AFCF3.6080109@zytor.com><20130131233654.GR20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx><CALxWeYqKWT=ww+EY4VWgfYaW62_=VGuHZqcGzbxykUnnhf1aAA@mail.gmail.com><20130204143147.GD20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:35:40AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > io_cancel(2)
> > io_destroy(2)
> > io_getevents(2)
> > io_setup(2)
> > io_submit(2)
>
> There may be some existing lib for these, although if there is I
> question the reasoning behind that...
I don't know the reasoning, but they're in libaio.
Still available in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/libaio
but the kernel page is empty: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/aio/