#include <sys/asynch.h> #include <sys/time.h>
aio_result_t *aiowait(timeout) struct timeval *timeout;
aiowait() suspends the calling process until one of its outstanding asynchronous I/O operations completes. This provides a synchronous method of notification.
If timeout is a non-zero pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to wait for the completion of an asynchronous I/O operation. If timeout is a zero pointer, then aiowait() blocks indefinitely. To effect a poll, the timeout parameter should be non-zero, pointing to a zero-valued timeval structure. The timeval structure is defined in <sys/time.h> as:
struct timeval { long tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */ };
aiowait() is the only way to dequeue an asynchronous notification. It may be used either inside a SIGIO signal handler or in the main program. Note: one SIGIO signal may represent several queued events.
On success, aiowait() returns a pointer to the result structure used when the completed asynchronous I/O operation was requested. On failure, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error. aiowait() returns 0 if the time limit expires.
The time limit expired.
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