docs: document sys/eventfd

src/sys/eventfd.rs

@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ use crate::{unistd, Result};
 use std::os::unix::io::{AsFd, AsRawFd, BorrowedFd, FromRawFd, OwnedFd, RawFd};
 
 libc_bitflags! {
+    /// Eventfd flags.
     pub struct EfdFlags: libc::c_int {
+        /// Set the close-on-exec (`FD_CLOEXEC`) flag on the new file descriptor.
         EFD_CLOEXEC; // Since Linux 2.6.27/FreeBSD 13.0
+        /// Set the `O_NONBLOCK`` file status flag on the open file description.
         EFD_NONBLOCK; // Since Linux 2.6.27/FreeBSD 13.0
+        /// Provide semaphore-like semantics for reads from the new file descriptor.
         EFD_SEMAPHORE; // Since Linux 2.6.30/FreeBSD 13.0
     }
 }
@@ -14,20 +18,24 @@ libc_bitflags! {
     since = "0.28.0",
     note = "Use EventFd::from_value_and_flags() instead"
 )]
+#[allow(missing_docs)]
 pub fn eventfd(initval: libc::c_uint, flags: EfdFlags) -> Result<OwnedFd> {
     let res = unsafe { libc::eventfd(initval, flags.bits()) };
 
     Errno::result(res).map(|r| unsafe { OwnedFd::from_raw_fd(r) })
 }
 
+/// A eventfd file descriptor.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 #[repr(transparent)]
 pub struct EventFd(OwnedFd);
+
 impl EventFd {
     /// [`EventFd::from_value_and_flags`] with `init_val = 0` and `flags = EfdFlags::empty()`.
     pub fn new() -> Result<Self> {
         Self::from_value_and_flags(0, EfdFlags::empty())
     }
+
     /// Constructs [`EventFd`] with the given `init_val` and `flags`.
     ///
     /// Wrapper around [`libc::eventfd`].
@@ -38,35 +46,57 @@ impl EventFd {
         let res = unsafe { libc::eventfd(init_val, flags.bits()) };
         Errno::result(res).map(|r| Self(unsafe { OwnedFd::from_raw_fd(r) }))
     }
+
     /// [`EventFd::from_value_and_flags`] with `init_val = 0` and given `flags`.
     pub fn from_flags(flags: EfdFlags) -> Result<Self> {
         Self::from_value_and_flags(0, flags)
     }
+
     /// [`EventFd::from_value_and_flags`] with given `init_val` and `flags = EfdFlags::empty()`.
     pub fn from_value(init_val: u32) -> Result<Self> {
         Self::from_value_and_flags(init_val, EfdFlags::empty())
     }
+
     /// Arms `self`, a following call to `poll`, `select` or `epoll` will return immediately.
     ///
     /// [`EventFd::write`] with `1`.
     pub fn arm(&self) -> Result<usize> {
         self.write(1)
     }
+
     /// Defuses `self`, a following call to `poll`, `select` or `epoll` will block.
     ///
     /// [`EventFd::write`] with `0`.
     pub fn defuse(&self) -> Result<usize> {
         self.write(0)
     }
-    /// Enqueues `value` triggers.
+
+    /// Enqueues `value` triggers, i.e., adds the integer value supplied in `value`
+    /// to the counter.
     ///
     /// The next `value` calls to `poll`, `select` or `epoll` will return immediately.
     ///
     /// [`EventFd::write`] with `value`.
     pub fn write(&self, value: u64) -> Result<usize> {
         unistd::write(&self.0, &value.to_ne_bytes())
     }
-    // Reads the value from the file descriptor.
+
+    /// Reads the value from the file descriptor.
+    ///
+    /// * If [`EFD_SEMAPHORE`](EfdFlags::EFD_SEMAPHORE) was not specified and the eventfd counter has
+    ///   a nonzero value, then this function returns an `u64` containing that
+    ///   value, and the counter's value is reset to zero.
+    ///
+    /// * If [`EFD_SEMAPHORE`](EfdFlags::EFD_SEMAPHORE) was specified and the
+    ///   eventfd counter has a nonzero value, then this function returns an
+    ///   `u64` containing the value 1, and the counter's value is decremented
+    ///   by 1.
+    ///
+    /// * If the eventfd counter is zero at the time of the this call, then the
+    ///   call either blocks until the counter becomes nonzero (at which time,
+    ///   this function proceeds as described above) or fails with the error
+    ///   `EAGAIN` if the file descriptor has been made nonblocking using
+    ///   [`EFD_NONBLOCK`](EfdFlags::EFD_NONBLOCK).
     pub fn read(&self) -> Result<u64> {
         let mut arr = [0; std::mem::size_of::<u64>()];
         unistd::read(&self.0, &mut arr)?;

src/sys/mod.rs

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ feature! {
     #[cfg(bsd)]
     pub mod event;
 
+    /// Event file descriptor.
     #[cfg(any(linux_android, target_os = "freebsd"))]
-    #[allow(missing_docs)]
     pub mod eventfd;
 }