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.Dd October 24, 2002
.Dt AIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm aio
.Nd asynchronous I/O
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To link into the kernel:
.Cd "options VFS_AIO"
.Pp
To load as a kernel loadable module:
.Dl kldload aio
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O.
It is available both as a kernel option for static inclusion and as a
dynamic kernel module.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr aio_cancel 2 ,
.Xr aio_error 2 ,
.Xr aio_read 2 ,
.Xr aio_return 2 ,
.Xr aio_suspend 2 ,
.Xr aio_waitcomplete 2 ,
.Xr aio_write 2 ,
.Xr lio_listio 2 ,
.Xr config 8 ,
.Xr kldload 8 ,
.Xr kldunload 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
facility appeared as a kernel option in
.Fx 3.0 .
The
.Nm
kernel module appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
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