NAME

opendisk — open a disk's raw partition

SYNOPSIS

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <util.h>

int
opendisk(const char *path, int flags, char *buf, size_t buflen, int iscooked);

DESCRIPTION

opendisk() opens path, for reading and/or writing as specified by the argument flags using open(2), and the file descriptor is returned to the caller. buf is used to store the resultant filename. buflen is the size, in bytes, of the array referenced by buf (usually MAXPATHLEN bytes). If iscooked is non zero, the “cooked” partition (block device) is opened, rather than the “raw” partition (character device).

opendisk() attempts to open the following variations of path, in order:

path: The pathname as given.
pathX: path with a suffix of ‘X’, where ‘X’ represents the raw partition of the device, as determined by getrawpartition(3), usually “c”.

If iscooked is zero, then the following two variations are attempted:

/dev/rpath: path with a prefix of “/dev/r”.
/dev/rpathX: path with a prefix of “/dev/r” and a suffix of ‘X’ (q.v.).

Otherwise (i.e., iscooked is non-zero), the following variations are attempted:

/dev/path: path with a prefix of “/dev/”.
/dev/pathX: path with a prefix of “/dev/” and a suffix of ‘X’ (q.v.).

RETURN VALUES

An open file descriptor, or -1 if the open(2) failed.

ERRORS

opendisk() may set errno to one of the following values:

[EINVAL]: O_CREAT was set in flags, or getrawpartition(3) didn't return a valid partition.

The opendisk() function may also set errno to any value specified by the open(2) function.

HISTORY