Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Jürg Billeter <> | Subject | [PATCH] readv.2, io_submit.2: Document RWF_APPEND added in Linux 4.16 | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:49:11 +0200 |
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Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> --- man2/io_submit.2 | 10 ++++++++++ man2/readv.2 | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man2/io_submit.2 b/man2/io_submit.2 index 397fd0b75..79fcdfee4 100644 --- a/man2/io_submit.2 +++ b/man2/io_submit.2 @@ -111,6 +111,16 @@ field of the .I io_event structure (see .BR io_getevents (2)). +.TP +.BR RWF_APPEND " (since Linux 4.16)" +.\" commit e1fc742e14e01d84d9693c4aca4ab23da65811fb +Append data to the end of the file. +See the description of the flag of the same name in +.BR pwritev2 (2) +as well as the description of +.B O_APPEND +in +.BR open (2). .RE .TP .I aio_lio_opcode diff --git a/man2/readv.2 b/man2/readv.2 index b3b7b9658..668fba576 100644 --- a/man2/readv.2 +++ b/man2/readv.2 @@ -248,6 +248,16 @@ to .BR EAGAIN . Currently, this flag is meaningful only for .BR preadv2 (). +.TP +.BR RWF_APPEND " (since Linux 4.16)" +.\" commit e1fc742e14e01d84d9693c4aca4ab23da65811fb +Provide a per-write equivalent of the +.B O_APPEND +.BR open (2) +flag. +This flag is meaningful only for +.BR pwritev2 (), +and its effect applies only to the data range written by the system call. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR readv (), -- 2.16.2
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