aio (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/aio.4freebsd".)

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 ifconfig 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_cancel2, aio_error2, aio_read2, aio_return2, aio_suspend2, aio_waitcomplete2, aio_write2, lio_listio2, config(8), kldload(8), kldunload(8)

HISTORY

The ifconfig facility appeared as a kernel option in Fx 3.0 . The ifconfig kernel module appeared in Fx 5.0 .