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             poll => 'r',
             cb => \&IO::AIO::poll_cb);
  # Glib/Gtk2
  add_watch Glib::IO IO::AIO::poll_fileno,
-           \&IO::AIO::poll_cb;
+           in => sub { IO::AIO::poll_cb; 1 };
  # Tk
  Tk::Event::IO->fileevent (IO::AIO::poll_fileno, "",
                            readable => \&IO::AIO::poll_cb);
 not well-supported (Linux doesn't allow them on normal files currently,
 for example), and they would only support aio_read and aio_write, so the
 remaining functionality would have to be implemented using threads anyway.
 Although the module will work with in the presence of other threads, it is
-currently not reentrant, so use appropriate locking yourself.
+currently not reentrant, so use appropriate locking yourself, always call
+C<poll_cb> from within the same thread, or never call C<poll_cb> (or other
+C<aio_> functions) recursively.
 =cut
 package IO::AIO;
+no warnings;
 use base 'Exporter';
 use Fcntl ();
 BEGIN {
-   $VERSION = 0.3;
+   $VERSION = 1.5;
    @EXPORT = qw(aio_read aio_write aio_open aio_close aio_stat aio_lstat aio_unlink
-                aio_fsync aio_fdatasync aio_readahead);
+                aio_rmdir aio_symlink aio_fsync aio_fdatasync aio_readahead);
    @EXPORT_OK = qw(poll_fileno poll_cb min_parallel max_parallel max_outstanding nreqs);
    require XSLoader;
    XSLoader::load IO::AIO, $VERSION;
 }
 =head2 AIO FUNCTIONS
 All the C<aio_*> calls are more or less thin wrappers around the syscall
 with the same name (sans C<aio_>). The arguments are similar or identical,
-and they all accept an additional C<$callback> argument which must be
+and they all accept an additional (and optional) C<$callback> argument
-a code reference. This code reference will get called with the syscall
+which must be a code reference. This code reference will get called with
-return code (e.g. most syscalls return C<-1> on error, unlike perl, which
+the syscall return code (e.g. most syscalls return C<-1> on error, unlike
-usually delivers "false") as it's sole argument when the given syscall has
+perl, which usually delivers "false") as it's sole argument when the given
-been executed asynchronously.
+syscall has been executed asynchronously.
-All functions that expect a filehandle will also accept a file descriptor.
+All functions expecting a filehandle keep a copy of the filehandle
+internally until the request has finished.
-The filenames you pass to these routines I<must> be absolute. The reason
+The pathnames you pass to these routines I<must> be absolute and
-is that at the time the request is being executed, the current working
+encoded in byte form. The reason for the former is that at the time the
-directory could have changed. Alternatively, you can make sure that you
+request is being executed, the current working directory could have
+changed. Alternatively, you can make sure that you never change the
-never change the current working directory.
+current working directory.
+To encode pathnames to byte form, either make sure you either: a)
+always pass in filenames you got from outside (command line, readdir
+etc.), b) are ASCII or ISO 8859-1, c) use the Encode module and encode
+your pathnames to the locale (or other) encoding in effect in the user
+environment, d) use Glib::filename_from_unicode on unicode filenames or e)
+use something else.
 =over 4
 =item aio_open $pathname, $flags, $mode, $callback
 created filehandle for the file.
 The pathname passed to C<aio_open> must be absolute. See API NOTES, above,
 for an explanation.
-The C<$mode> argument is a bitmask. See the C<Fcntl> module for a
+The C<$flags> argument is a bitmask. See the C<Fcntl> module for a
-list. They are the same as used in C<sysopen>.
+list. They are the same as used by C<sysopen>.
+Likewise, C<$mode> specifies the mode of the newly created file, if it
+didn't exist and C<O_CREAT> has been given, just like perl's C<sysopen>,
+except that it is mandatory (i.e. use C<0> if you don't create new files,
+and C<0666> or C<0777> if you do).
 Example:
    aio_open "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY, 0, sub {
       if ($_[0]) {
 =item aio_close $fh, $callback
 Asynchronously close a file and call the callback with the result
 code. I<WARNING:> although accepted, you should not pass in a perl
-filehandle here, as perl will likely close the file descriptor itself when
+filehandle here, as perl will likely close the file descriptor another
-the filehandle is destroyed. Normally, you can safely call perls C<close>
+time when the filehandle is destroyed. Normally, you can safely call perls
-or just let filehandles go out of scope.
+C<close> or just let filehandles go out of scope.
+This is supposed to be a bug in the API, so that might change. It's
+therefore best to avoid this function.
 =item aio_read  $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset,$callback
 =item aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset,$callback
 Reads or writes C<length> bytes from the specified C<fh> and C<offset>
 into the scalar given by C<data> and offset C<dataoffset> and calls the
 callback without the actual number of bytes read (or -1 on error, just
 like the syscall).
+The C<$data> scalar I<MUST NOT> be modified in any way while the request
+is outstanding. Modifying it can result in segfaults or WW3 (if the
+necessary/optional hardware is installed).
-Example: Read 15 bytes at offset 7 into scalar C<$buffer>, strating at
+Example: Read 15 bytes at offset 7 into scalar C<$buffer>, starting at
 offset C<0> within the scalar:
    aio_read $fh, 7, 15, $buffer, 0, sub {
       $_[0] > 0 or die "read error: $!";
       print "read $_[0] bytes: <$buffer>\n";
    };
+=item aio_sendfile $out_fh, $in_fh, $in_offset, $length, $callback
+Tries to copy C<$length> bytes from C<$in_fh> to C<$out_fh>. It starts
+reading at byte offset C<$in_offset>, and starts writing at the current
+file offset of C<$out_fh>. Because of that, it is not safe to issue more
+than one C<aio_sendfile> per C<$out_fh>, as they will interfere with each
+other.
+This call tries to make use of a native C<sendfile> syscall to provide
+zero-copy operation. For this to work, C<$out_fh> should refer to a
+socket, and C<$in_fh> should refer to mmap'able file.
+If the native sendfile call fails or is not implemented, it will be
+emulated, so you can call C<aio_sendfile> on any filehandles regardless of
+the limitations of the OS.
+Please note, however, that C<aio_sendfile> can read more bytes from
+C<$in_fh> than are written, and there is no way to find out how many
+bytes have been read form C<aio_sendfile> alone, as C<aio_sendfile> only
+provides the number of bytes written to C<$out_fh>. Only if the return
+value (the value provided to the callback) equals C<$length> one can
+assume that C<$length> bytes have been read.
 =item aio_readahead $fh,$offset,$length, $callback
-Asynchronously reads the specified byte range into the page cache, using
-the C<readahead> syscall. If that syscall doesn't exist the status will be
-C<-1> and C<$!> is set to ENOSYS.
-readahead() populates the page cache with data from a file so that
+C<aio_readahead> populates the page cache with data from a file so that
 subsequent reads from that file will not block on disk I/O. The C<$offset>
 argument specifies the starting point from which data is to be read and
 C<$length> specifies the number of bytes to be read. I/O is performed in
 whole pages, so that offset is effectively rounded down to a page boundary
 and bytes are read up to the next page boundary greater than or equal to
-(off-set+length). aio_readahead() does not read beyond the end of the
+(off-set+length). C<aio_readahead> does not read beyond the end of the
 file. The current file offset of the file is left unchanged.
+If that syscall doesn't exist (likely if your OS isn't Linux) it will be
+emulated by simply reading the data, which would have a similar effect.
 =item aio_stat  $fh_or_path, $callback
 =item aio_lstat $fh, $callback
 =item aio_unlink $pathname, $callback
 Asynchronously unlink (delete) a file and call the callback with the
 result code.
+=item aio_rmdir $pathname, $callback
+Asynchronously rmdir (delete) a directory and call the callback with the
+result code.
 =item aio_fsync $fh, $callback
 Asynchronously call fsync on the given filehandle and call the callback
 with the fsync result code.
 =item aio_fdatasync $fh, $callback
 Asynchronously call fdatasync on the given filehandle and call the
 callback with the fdatasync result code.
+If this call isn't available because your OS lacks it or it couldn't be
+detected, it will be emulated by calling C<fsync> instead.
 =back
 =head2 SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
 =over 4
 =item $fileno = IO::AIO::poll_fileno
-Return the I<request result pipe filehandle>. This filehandle must be
+Return the I<request result pipe file descriptor>. This filehandle must be
-polled for reading by some mechanism outside this module (e.g. Event
+polled for reading by some mechanism outside this module (e.g. Event or
-or select, see below). If the pipe becomes readable you have to call
+select, see below or the SYNOPSIS). If the pipe becomes readable you have
-C<poll_cb> to check the results.
+to call C<poll_cb> to check the results.
 See C<poll_cb> for an example.
 =item IO::AIO::poll_cb
 Process all outstanding events on the result pipe. You have to call this
 regularly. Returns the number of events processed. Returns immediately
 when no events are outstanding.
-You can use Event to multiplex, e.g.:
+Example: Install an Event watcher that automatically calls
+IO::AIO::poll_cb with high priority:
    Event->io (fd => IO::AIO::poll_fileno,
               poll => 'r', async => 1,
               cb => \&IO::AIO::poll_cb);
 =item IO::AIO::poll_wait
 Wait till the result filehandle becomes ready for reading (simply does a
-select on the filehandle. This is useful if you want to synchronously wait
+C<select> on the filehandle. This is useful if you want to synchronously wait
 for some requests to finish).
 See C<nreqs> for an example.
 =item IO::AIO::nreqs
-Returns the number of requests currently outstanding.
+Returns the number of requests currently outstanding (i.e. for which their
+callback has not been invoked yet).
 Example: wait till there are no outstanding requests anymore:
    IO::AIO::poll_wait, IO::AIO::poll_cb
       while IO::AIO::nreqs;
 =item IO::AIO::flush
 Wait till all outstanding AIO requests have been handled.
+Strictly equivalent to:
+   IO::AIO::poll_wait, IO::AIO::poll_cb
+      while IO::AIO::nreqs;
+=item IO::AIO::poll
+Waits until some requests have been handled.
+Strictly equivalent to:
+   IO::AIO::poll_wait, IO::AIO::poll_cb
+      if IO::AIO::nreqs;
 =item IO::AIO::min_parallel $nthreads
-Set the minimum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. The default is
+Set the minimum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. The current default
-C<1>, which means a single asynchronous operation can be done at one time
+is C<4>, which means four asynchronous operations can be done at one time
 (the number of outstanding operations, however, is unlimited).
+IO::AIO starts threads only on demand, when an AIO request is queued and
+no free thread exists.
 It is recommended to keep the number of threads low, as some Linux
 kernel versions will scale negatively with the number of threads (higher
 parallelity => MUCH higher latency). With current Linux 2.6 versions, 4-32
 threads should be fine.
-Under normal circumstances you don't need to call this function, as this
+Under most circumstances you don't need to call this function, as the
-module automatically starts some threads (the exact number might change,
+module selects a default that is suitable for low to moderate load.
-and is currently 4).
 =item IO::AIO::max_parallel $nthreads
-Sets the maximum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. If more than
+Sets the maximum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. If more than the
-the specified number of threads are currently running, kill them. This
+specified number of threads are currently running, this function kills
-function blocks until the limit is reached.
+them. This function blocks until the limit is reached.
+While C<$nthreads> are zero, aio requests get queued but not executed
+until the number of threads has been increased again.
 This module automatically runs C<max_parallel 0> at program end, to ensure
 that all threads are killed and that there are no outstanding requests.
 Under normal circumstances you don't need to call this function.
 Sets the maximum number of outstanding requests to C<$nreqs>. If you
 try to queue up more than this number of requests, the caller will block until
 some requests have been handled.
 The default is very large, so normally there is no practical limit. If you
-queue up many requests in a loop it it often improves speed if you set
+queue up many requests in a loop it often improves speed if you set
 this to a relatively low number, such as C<100>.
 Under normal circumstances you don't need to call this function.
 =back
 # support function to convert a fd into a perl filehandle
 sub _fd2fh {
    return undef if $_[0] < 0;
-   # try to be perl5.6-compatible
+   # try to generate nice filehandles
-   local *AIO_FH;
+   my $sym = "IO::AIO::fd#$_[0]";
-   open AIO_FH, "+<&=$_[0]"
+   local *$sym;
+   open *$sym, "+<&=$_[0]"      # usually works under any unix
+      or open *$sym, "<&=$_[0]" # cygwin needs this
+      or open *$sym, ">&=$_[0]" # or this
       or return undef;
-   *AIO_FH
+   *$sym
 }
 min_parallel 4;
 END {
    max_parallel 0;
 }
 1;
+=head2 FORK BEHAVIOUR
+Before the fork, IO::AIO enters a quiescent state where no requests
+can be added in other threads and no results will be processed. After
+the fork the parent simply leaves the quiescent state and continues
+request/result processing, while the child clears the request/result
+queue (so the requests started before the fork will only be handled in
+the parent). Threats will be started on demand until the limit ste in the
+parent process has been reached again.
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 L<Coro>, L<Linux::AIO>.
 =head1 AUTHOR

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