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     faster on a RAID volume or over NFS when you do a number of stat
     operations concurrently.
     While most of this works on all types of file descriptors (for example
     sockets), using these functions on file descriptors that support
-    nonblocking operation (again, sockets, pipes etc.) is very inefficient
+    nonblocking operation (again, sockets, pipes etc.) is very inefficient.
-    or might not work (aio_read fails on sockets/pipes/fifos). Use an event
-    loop for that (such as the Event module): IO::AIO will naturally fit
+    Use an event loop for that (such as the Event module): IO::AIO will
-    into such an event loop itself.
+    naturally fit into such an event loop itself.
     In this version, a number of threads are started that execute your
     requests and signal their completion. You don't need thread support in
     perl, and the threads created by this module will not be visible to
     perl. In the future, this module might make use of the native aio
     not well-supported or restricted (GNU/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 (Perl-)
+    Although the module will work in the presence of other (Perl-) threads,
-    threads, it is currently not reentrant in any way, so use appropriate
+    it is currently not reentrant in any way, so use appropriate locking
-    locking yourself, always call "poll_cb" from within the same thread, or
+    yourself, always call "poll_cb" from within the same thread, or never
-    never call "poll_cb" (or other "aio_" functions) recursively.
+    call "poll_cb" (or other "aio_" functions) recursively.
   EXAMPLE
     This is a simple example that uses the Event module and loads
     /etc/passwd asynchronously:
         They are the same as used by "sysopen".
         Likewise, $mode specifies the mode of the newly created file, if it
         didn't exist and "O_CREAT" has been given, just like perl's
         "sysopen", except that it is mandatory (i.e. use 0 if you don't
-        create new files, and 0666 or 0777 if you do).
+        create new files, and 0666 or 0777 if you do). Note that the $mode
+        will be modified by the umask in effect then the request is being
+        executed, so better never change the umask.
         Example:
            aio_open "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY, 0, sub {
               if ($_[0]) {
               }
            };
     aio_close $fh, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously close a file and call the callback with the result
-        code. *WARNING:* although accepted, you should not pass in a perl
+        code.
-        filehandle here, as perl will likely close the file descriptor
-        another time when the filehandle is destroyed. Normally, you can
-        safely call perls "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
+        Unlike the other functions operating on files, this function uses
-        therefore best to avoid this function.
+        the PerlIO layer to close the filehandle. The reason is that the
+        PerlIO API insists on closing the underlying fd itself, no matter
+        what, and doesn't allow modifications to the fd. Unfortunately, it
+        is not clear that you can call PerlIO from different threads
+        (actually, its quite clear that this won't work in some cases), so
+        while it likely works perfectly with simple file handles (such as
+        the ones created by "aio_open") it might fail in interesting ways
+        for others.
+        Having said that, aio_close tries to clean up the filehandle as much
+        as possible before handing it to an io thread, and generally does
+        work.
     aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval)
     aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval)
-        Reads or writes "length" bytes from the specified "fh" and "offset"
+        Reads or writes $length bytes from the specified $fh and $offset
-        into the scalar given by "data" and offset "dataoffset" and calls
+        into the scalar given by $data and offset $dataoffset and calls the
-        the callback without the actual number of bytes read (or -1 on
+        callback without the actual number of bytes read (or -1 on error,
-        error, just like the syscall).
+        just like the syscall).
+        If $offset is undefined, then the current file descriptor offset
+        will be used (and updated), otherwise the file descriptor offset
+        will not be changed by these calls.
+        If $length is undefined in "aio_write", use the remaining length of
+        $data.
+        If $dataoffset is less than zero, it will be counted from the end of
+        $data.
         The $data scalar *MUST NOT* be modified in any way while the request
-        is outstanding. Modifying it can result in segfaults or WW3 (if the
+        is outstanding. Modifying it can result in segfaults or World War
-        necessary/optional hardware is installed).
+        III (if the necessary/optional hardware is installed).
         Example: Read 15 bytes at offset 7 into scalar $buffer, starting at
         offset 0 within the scalar:
            aio_read $fh, 7, 15, $buffer, 0, sub {
            aio_stat "/etc/passwd", sub {
               $_[0] and die "stat failed: $!";
               print "size is ", -s _, "\n";
            };
+    aio_utime $fh_or_path, $atime, $mtime, $callback->($status)
+        Works like perl's "utime" function (including the special case of
+        $atime and $mtime being undef). Fractional times are supported if
+        the underlying syscalls support them.
+        When called with a pathname, uses utimes(2) if available, otherwise
+        utime(2). If called on a file descriptor, uses futimes(2) if
+        available, otherwise returns ENOSYS, so this is not portable.
+        Examples:
+           # set atime and mtime to current time (basically touch(1)):
+           aio_utime "path", undef, undef;
+           # set atime to current time and mtime to beginning of the epoch:
+           aio_utime "path", time, undef; # undef==0
+    aio_chown $fh_or_path, $uid, $gid, $callback->($status)
+        Works like perl's "chown" function, except that "undef" for either
+        $uid or $gid is being interpreted as "do not change" (but -1 can
+        also be used).
+        Examples:
+           # same as "chown root path" in the shell:
+           aio_chown "path", 0, -1;
+           # same as above:
+           aio_chown "path", 0, undef;
+    aio_truncate $fh_or_path, $offset, $callback->($status)
+        Works like truncate(2) or ftruncate(2).
+    aio_chmod $fh_or_path, $mode, $callback->($status)
+        Works like perl's "chmod" function.
     aio_unlink $pathname, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously unlink (delete) a file and call the callback with the
         result code.
     aio_mknod $path, $mode, $dev, $callback->($status)
     aio_rename $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously rename the object at $srcpath to $dstpath, just as
         rename(2) and call the callback with the result code.
+    aio_mkdir $pathname, $mode, $callback->($status)
+        Asynchronously mkdir (create) a directory and call the callback with
+        the result code. $mode will be modified by the umask at the time the
+        request is executed, so do not change your umask.
     aio_rmdir $pathname, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously rmdir (delete) a directory and call the callback with
         the result code.
     aio_readdir $pathname, $callback->($entries)
         entire directory (i.e. opendir + readdir + closedir). The entries
         will not be sorted, and will NOT include the "." and ".." entries.
         The callback a single argument which is either "undef" or an
         array-ref with the filenames.
+    aio_load $path, $data, $callback->($status)
+        This is a composite request that tries to fully load the given file
+        into memory. Status is the same as with aio_read.
     aio_copy $srcpath, $dstpath, $callback->($status)
         Try to copy the *file* (directories not supported as either source
         or destination) from $srcpath to $dstpath and call the callback with
         the 0 (error) or -1 ok.
         It will also likely work on non-POSIX filesystems with reduced
         efficiency as those tend to return 0 or 1 as link counts, which
         disables the directory counting heuristic.
+    aio_rmtree $path, $callback->($status)
+        Delete a directory tree starting (and including) $path, return the
+        status of the final "rmdir" only. This is a composite request that
+        uses "aio_scandir" to recurse into and rmdir directories, and unlink
+        everything else.
     aio_fsync $fh, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously call fsync on the given filehandle and call the
         callback with the fsync result code.
     aio_fdatasync $fh, $callback->($status)
     $oldmaxreqs = IO::AIO::max_outstanding $maxreqs
         This is a very bad function to use in interactive programs because
         it blocks, and a bad way to reduce concurrency because it is
         inexact: Better use an "aio_group" together with a feed callback.
-        Sets the maximum number of outstanding requests to $nreqs. If you to
+        Sets the maximum number of outstanding requests to $nreqs. If you do
         queue up more than this number of requests, the next call to the
         "poll_cb" (and "poll_some" and other functions calling "poll_cb")
         function will block until the limit is no longer exceeded.
         The default value is very large, so there is no practical limit on
     bytes of memory. In addition, stat requests need a stat buffer (possibly
     a few hundred bytes), readdir requires a result buffer and so on. Perl
     scalars and other data passed into aio requests will also be locked and
     will consume memory till the request has entered the done state.
-    This is now awfully much, so queuing lots of requests is not usually a
+    This is not awfully much, so queuing lots of requests is not usually a
     problem.
     Per-thread usage:
     In the execution phase, some aio requests require more memory for

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Revision 1.26 by root, Thu Oct 4 12:50:35 2007 UTC