AIO_FSYNC(3) BSD Library Functions Manual AIO_FSYNC(3)
NAME
aio_fsync -- asynchronous data synchronization of file (REALTIME)
LIBRARY
POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)
SYNOPSIS
#include <aio.h>
int
aio_fsync(int op, struct aiocb *aiocbp);
DESCRIPTION
The aio_fsync() system call allows the calling process to force all modified data associated with the file descriptor aiocbp->aio_fildes to
be flushed to the stable storage device. The call returns immediately after the synchronization request has been enqueued to the descriptor;
the synchronization may or may not have completed at the time the call returns. If the request could not be enqueued, generally due to
invalid arguments, the call returns without having enqueued the request.
The op argument could be set only to O_DSYNC or O_SYNC. If op is O_DSYNC, then aio_fsync() does the same as a fdatasync() call, if O_SYNC,
then the same as fsync().
If _POSIX_PRIORITIZED_IO is defined, and the descriptor supports it, then the enqueued operation is submitted at a priority equal to that of
the calling process minus aiocbp->aio_reqprio.
The aiocbp pointer may be subsequently used as an argument to aio_return() and aio_error() in order to determine return or error status for
the enqueued operation while it is in progress.
RETURN VALUES
The aio_fsync() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi-
cate the error.
ERRORS
The aio_fsync() system call will fail if:
[EAGAIN] The request was not queued because of system resource limitations.
The following conditions may be synchronously detected when the aio_fsync() system call is made, or asynchronously, at any time thereafter.
If they are detected at call time, aio_fsync() returns -1 and sets errno appropriately; otherwise the aio_return() system call must be
called, and will return -1, and aio_error() must be called to determine the actual value that would have been returned in errno.
[EBADF] The aiocbp->aio_fildes is invalid for writing.
[EINVAL] This implementation does not support synchronized I/O for this file, or the op argument is neither set to O_DSYNC nor
O_SYNC.
SEE ALSO
fcntl(2), fdatasync(2), fsync(2), aio(3)
STANDARDS
The aio_fsync() system call is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') standard.
HISTORY
The aio_fsync() system call first appeared in NetBSD 5.0.
BSD
May 17, 2010 BSD