(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.40.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / aio_cancel.3

diff --git a/original/man3/aio_cancel.3 b/original/man3/aio_cancel.3
index 934583a..07aa860 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/aio_cancel.3
+++ b/original/man3/aio_cancel.3
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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 .\" USA.
 .\"
-.TH AIO_CANCEL 3 2011-10-04  "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH AIO_CANCEL 3 2012-04-18  "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 aio_cancel \- cancel an outstanding asynchronous I/O request
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -67,23 +67,26 @@ was initiated, unspecified results occur.
 Which operations are cancelable is implementation-defined.
 .\" FreeBSD: not those on raw disk devices.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-This function returns
+The
+.BR aio_cancel ()
+function returns one of the following values:
+.TP
 .B AIO_CANCELED
-if all requests were successfully
-canceled.
-It returns
+All requests were successfully canceled.
+.TP
 .B AIO_NOTCANCELED
-when at least one of the
+At least one of the
 requests specified was not canceled because it was in progress.
-In this case one may check the status of individual requests using
+In this case, one may check the status of individual requests using
 .BR aio_error (3).
-This function returns
+.TP
 .B AIO_ALLDONE
-if all requests had
-already been completed before this call.
-When some error occurs, \-1 is returned, and
-.I errno
-is set appropriately.
+All requests had already been completed before the call.
+.TP
+\-1
+An error occurred.
+The cause of the error can be found by inspecting
+.IR errno .
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EBADF