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* [PATCH liburing] man/io_uring_enter.2: update notes about direct open/accept
@ 2021-09-14 16:00 Pavel Begunkov
  2021-09-14 16:02 ` Pavel Begunkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Begunkov @ 2021-09-14 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, io-uring

Reflect recent changes in the man, i.e. direct open/accept now would try
to remove a file from the fixed file table if the slot they target is
already taken.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
---
 man/io_uring_enter.2 | 21 +++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/io_uring_enter.2 b/man/io_uring_enter.2
index ad86961..037f31e 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_enter.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_enter.2
@@ -517,10 +517,9 @@ field is set to a positive number, the file won't be installed into the
 normal file table as usual but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
 .I file_index - 1.
 In this case, instead of returning a file descriptor, the result will contain
-either 0 on success or an error. If there is already a file registered at this
-index, the request will fail with
-.B -EBADF.
-Only io_uring has access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
+either 0 on success or an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
+installation is guaranteed to not fail. Please note that only io_uring has
+access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
 .B IOSQE_FIXED_FILE
 and
 .B IORING_REGISTER_FILES.
@@ -656,10 +655,9 @@ field is set to a positive number, the file won't be installed into the
 normal file table as usual but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
 .I file_index - 1.
 In this case, instead of returning a file descriptor, the result will contain
-either 0 on success or an error. If there is already a file registered at this
-index, the request will fail with
-.B -EBADF.
-Only io_uring has access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
+either 0 on success or an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
+installation is guaranteed to not fail. Please note that only io_uring has
+access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
 .B IOSQE_FIXED_FILE
 and
 .B IORING_REGISTER_FILES.
@@ -692,10 +690,9 @@ field is set to a positive number, the file won't be installed into the
 normal file table as usual but will be placed into the fixed file table at index
 .I file_index - 1.
 In this case, instead of returning a file descriptor, the result will contain
-either 0 on success or an error. If there is already a file registered at this
-index, the request will fail with
-.B -EBADF.
-Only io_uring has access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
+either 0 on success or an error. If the index points to a valid empty slot, the
+installation is guaranteed to not fail. Please note that only io_uring has
+access to such files and no other syscall can use them. See
 .B IOSQE_FIXED_FILE
 and
 .B IORING_REGISTER_FILES.
-- 
2.33.0


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