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30.Dd October 24, 2002
31.Dt AIO 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm aio
35.Nd asynchronous I/O
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37To link into the kernel:
38.Cd "options VFS_AIO"
39.Pp
40To load as a kernel loadable module:
41.Dl kldload aio
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O.
46It is available both as a kernel option for static inclusion and as a
47dynamic kernel module.
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr aio_cancel 2 ,
50.Xr aio_error 2 ,
51.Xr aio_read 2 ,
52.Xr aio_return 2 ,
53.Xr aio_suspend 2 ,
54.Xr aio_waitcomplete 2 ,
55.Xr aio_write 2 ,
56.Xr lio_listio 2 ,
57.Xr config 8 ,
58.Xr kldload 8 ,
59.Xr kldunload 8
60.Sh HISTORY
61The
62.Nm
63facility appeared as a kernel option in
64.Fx 3.0 .
65The
66.Nm
67kernel module appeared in
68.Fx 5.0 .