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io_uring_prep_poll_add(3) liburing Manualio_uring_prep_poll_add(3)io_uring_prep_poll_add - prepare a poll request
#include <poll.h>#include <liburing.h>void io_uring_prep_poll_add(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,intfd,unsignedpoll_mask);void io_uring_prep_poll_multishot(struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,intfd,unsignedpoll_mask);
Theio_uring_prep_poll_add(3) function prepares a poll request. The submission queue entrysqe is setup to use the file descriptorfd that should get polled, with the events desired specified in thepoll_mask argument. The default behavior is a single-shot poll request. When the specified event has triggered, a completion CQE is posted and no more events will be generated by the poll request.io_uring_prep_poll_multishot(3) behaves identically in terms of events, but it persists across notifications and will repeatedly post notifications for the same registration. A CQE posted from a multishot poll request will haveIORING_CQE_F_MOREset in the CQEflags member, indicating that the application should expect more completions from this request. If the multishot poll request gets terminated or experiences an error, this flag will not be set in the CQE. If this happens, the application should not expect further CQEs from the original request and must reissue a new one if it still wishes to get notifications on this file descriptor.
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The CQEres field will contain the result of the operation, which is a bitmask of the events notified. See thepoll(2) man page for details. Note that where synchronous system calls will return-1 on failure and seterrno to the actual error value, io_uring never useserrno. Instead it returns the negatederrno directly in the CQEres field.
io_uring_get_sqe(3),io_uring_submit(3),poll(2),epoll_ctl(3)
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