From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 5 10:42: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D961547C for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22365; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:39:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:39:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: terry@whistle.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: aio_read Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry, In the BUGS section of the 4.0-CURRENT aio_read man page, the following comment is made: The value of iocb->aio_offset is ignored. Is this actually the case, and what would be required to fix it? Does this comment imply that reads always occur at the current file offset from the open file structure? What I would like to do is have a child process read from an inherited file descriptor without affecting the parent process's access to the descriptor (for example, the offset it reads from using a normal read() or readv()). I address this to you because you seem to be listed in the man page as the author of the man page (although it looks like John Dyson has the copyright on the source code?) Thanks, Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message