NAME

       aio — asynchronous I/O

SYNOPSIS

       To link into the kernel:
       options VFS_AIO

       To load as a kernel loadable module:
             kldload aio

DESCRIPTION

       The aio facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O.  It is available both as a kernel option for
       static inclusion and as a dynamic kernel module.

SEE ALSO

       aio_cancel(2),    aio_error(2),    aio_read(2),   aio_return(2),   aio_suspend(2),   aio_waitcomplete(2),
       aio_write(2), lio_listio(2), config(8), kldload(8), kldunload(8)

HISTORY

       The aio facility appeared as a kernel  option  in  FreeBSD  3.0.   The  aio  kernel  module  appeared  in
       FreeBSD 5.0.

Debian                                          October 24, 2002                                          AIO(4)