support for calling Linux syscalls directly

[Eric Wong]

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/