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  30 .Dd February 16, 2006
  31 .Dt AIO 4
  32 .Os
  33 .Sh NAME
  34 .Nm aio
  35 .Nd asynchronous I/O
  36 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  37 The
  38 .Nm
  39 facility provides system calls for asynchronous I/O.
  40 .Sh SEE ALSO
  41 .Xr aio_cancel 2 ,
  42 .Xr aio_error 2 ,
  43 .Xr aio_read 2 ,
  44 .Xr aio_return 2 ,
  45 .Xr aio_suspend 2 ,
  46 .Xr aio_write 2 ,
  47 .Xr lio_listio 2
  48 .Sh HISTORY
  49 The
  50 .Nm
  51 facility appeared in
  52 .Fx 3.0 .