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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.