ASYNCIBCNT(3)

💅 ASYNCIBCNT(3) — the AsyncIbcnt girlies' page 💅

okay bestie, welcome to ASYNCIBCNT(3), a teeny tiny page from the Utility Functions section of your local man pages, and honestly? she's small but she serves. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

AsyncIbcnt — she hands you the ibcnt and ibcntl values for your last asynchronous I/O operation. no cap, that's the whole job. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <gpib/ib.h>

int AsyncIbcnt(void);

long AsyncIbcntl(void);

two little functions. one returns an int, one returns a long, and both are coming straight out of <gpib/ib.h>. slay. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. AsyncIbcnt() and AsyncIbcntl() return thread-local counts that are related to the global variables ibcnt and ibcntl. 🫶

and what are those values, you ask? they correspond to the result of the last asynchronous I/O operation that got resynchronized to the current thread by an ibwait or ibstop call. that's the vibe. 💖

the way that these functions work is they only reflect the result of the asynchronous I/O operation itself — and not, for example, the ibwait that did the resynchronizing of the asynchronous result to the current thread. so you're getting the async op's receipts, nothing else. 🙈

which means: the result from AsyncIbcnt() is genuinely easier to interpret than ThreadIbcnt(), because with AsyncIbcnt() it is unambiguous whether the value is associated with the asynchronous I/O result, or with the function call that was used to resynchronize (ibwait or ibstop). no guessing, no confusion, no drama. 💅

lowkey important: these functions are Linux-GPIB extensions. so don't go looking for them in some other library, bestie, they live here. 🏠

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

you get back a value related to ibcnt or ibcntl corresponding to the last asynchronous I/O operation resynchronized to the current thread. that's it. that's the return. 🎀

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2003-2006, 2008 Frank Mori Hess

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! you absolutely ate that read. 💅✨ this was linux-gpib version 4.3.7, dated 07/06/2026, and she said periodt. 🌈🦋💖