event_io_write

event_io_write — initiate a write to an event

#include "event.h"

| int **event_io_write** ( | e, |   | |   | buf, |   | |   | buflen, |   | |   | state); |   |

Event * <var class="pdparam">e</var>; const char * <var class="pdparam">buf</var>; int <var class="pdparam">buflen</var>; event_io_state * <var class="pdparam">state</var>;

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initiate a write to an event.

Writes a buffer to an event. If the write cannot be satisfied immediately, this function stores state information into the state parameter and returns EVENT_IO_PENDING. state->needmask will be set to the mask required for scheduling purposes. The caller should call event_io_retry when the scheduler indicates that the underlying event is signalled with state->needmask.

If the write failed, this function returns EVENT_IO_ERROR.

If the write completes immediately, return EVENT_IO_DONE.

state must not be NULL, and must either be zero'ed out or be a value state structure previously used by other event_io_XXX routines.

It is advantageous to reuse state structures, as they try to avoid allocating memory if they already have an appropriately sized buffer.

When a state structure is no longer required, you should free resources by calling event_io_state_clean.