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Micro-updates
author Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com>
date Tue Sep 11 11:29:43 2018 +0300 (2018-09-11)
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1 The Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility ("async I/O", or "aio") has a richer
2 API and capability set than the simple POSIX async I/O facility. This library,
3 libaio, provides the Linux-native API for async I/O. The POSIX async I/O
4 facility requires this library in order to provide kernel-accelerated async I/O
5 capabilities, as do applications which require the Linux-native async I/O API.