From: Wendy Cheng Note that other than few exceptions, most of the current filesystem and/or drivers do not have aio cancel specifically defined (kiob->ki_cancel field is mostly NULL). However, sys_io_cancel system call universally sets return code to -EGAIN. This gives applications a wrong impression that this call is implemented but just never works. We have customer inquires about this issue. Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/aio.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/aio.c~aio-add-enosys-into-sys_io_cancel fs/aio.c --- devel/fs/aio.c~aio-add-enosys-into-sys_io_cancel 2005-07-12 12:57:44.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/fs/aio.c 2005-07-12 12:57:44.000000000 -0700 @@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_io_cancel(aio_contex ret = -EFAULT; } } else - printk(KERN_DEBUG "iocb has no cancel operation\n"); + ret = -ENOSYS; put_ioctx(ctx); _