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.TH libaio 3LIB "10 Jul 2012" "SunOS 5.11" "Interface Libraries"
.SH NAME
libaio \- asynchronous I/O library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
cc [ \fIflag\fR... ] \fIfile\fR... \fB-laio\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR... ]
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
Historically, functions in this library provided asynchronous I/O operations. This functionality now resides in \fBlibc\fR(3LIB).
.sp
.LP
This library is maintained to provide backward compatibility for both runtime and compilation environments. The shared object is implemented as a filter on libc.so.1. New application development need not specify \fB-laio\fR.
.SH INTERFACES
.sp
.LP
The shared object \fBlibaio.so.1\fR provides the public interfaces defined below. See \fBIntro\fR(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab();
lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) 
.
\fBaiocancel\fR\fBaioread\fR
\fBaiowait\fR\fBaiowrite\fR
\fBassfail\fR\fBclose\fR
\fBfork\fR\fBsigaction\fR
.TE

.sp
.LP
The following interfaces are unique to the 32-bit version of this library:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab();
lw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) 
.
\fBaioread64\fR\fBaiowrite64\fR
.TE

.SH FILES
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/lib/libaio.so.1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
.rt  
shared object
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/lib/64/libaio.so.1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 23n
.rt  
64-bit shared object
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Availabilitysystem/library
_
MT-LevelSafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBpvs\fR(1), \fBIntro\fR(2), \fBIntro\fR(3), \fBaiocancel\fR(3C), \fBaioread\fR(3C), \fBaiowait\fR(3C), \fBaiowrite\fR(3C), \fBaio.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBlibc\fR(3LIB), \fBattributes\fR(5)