Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

>Also, please cc linux-aio@kvack.org on future aio patches.  
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Didn't realize the patch was sent to linux-kernel (that I don't 
subscribe) instead of linux-aio - revised patch attached. Thanks for the 
help .... Wendy

>On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Wendy Cheng wrote:
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>Note that other than few exceptions, most of the current filesystem 
>and/or drivers do not have aio cancel specifically defined 
>(kiob->ki_cancel field is mostly NULL). However, sys_io_cancel system 
>call universally sets return code to -EGAIN. This gives applications a 
>wrong impression that this call is implemented but just never works. We 
>have customer inquires about this issue.
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>Upload a trivial patch to address this confusion.
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