tst-aio - new version - reveals a bug in glibc

Mark Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 27 13:00:00 GMT 2000


At 2:48 AM -0700 7/27/00, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Meanwhile I'm a little bit more confident that implementation is not
>completely broken.  There is one strange thing though: reading the
>current XPG6 draft it says for aio_cancel() that no fields but
>aio_fildes and aio_sigevent are used.  This is strange since at least
>aio_reqprio should be used as well.  Otherwise queuing the request is
>difficult.  This wording is also not present in POSIX-1.
>
>Mark: it's probably something that has to be brought up in the AG.

The current draft (AG Draft 3) for aio_cancel(), nor the SUSv2 (UNIX98)
spec for aio_cancel() mention specific fields.

I'm not sure what document you are accessing...

Mark
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