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Module Aio


module Aio: sig .. end
libaio-ocaml Linux async I/O interface for ocaml

This module implements the libaio bindings that interface with the Linux system calls.

Version 0.0.0 - goswin-v-b@web.de 


type buffer
The type for Buffer.
val buffer : int -> buffer
Allocate an uninitialized buffer.
val get_string : buffer -> int -> string
Get a string of length x from a buffer.
val put_string : buffer -> string -> unit
Put a string into a buffer.
val rewind : buffer -> unit
Rewind a buffer to it start.
type result
The type for a result of a completed I/O request
exception Error of int
An error has occured during a request.
exception Incomplete of buffer * int
A request was only partialy completed.
val result : result -> buffer
Extract the buffer from a result or throw the proper exception
type context
The type for a libaio Context.
val context : int -> context
Create a new context for n simultaneous requests.
val read : context ->
       Unix.file_descr -> buffer -> int64 -> (result -> unit) -> unit
fill buffer from file at given offset and call continuation
val write : context ->
       Unix.file_descr -> buffer -> int64 -> (result -> unit) -> unit
write buffer to file at given offset and call continuation
val run : context -> unit
run the context till there are no more pending requests