Systems programming on FreeBSD
Ekkehard Morgenstern
ekkehard.morgenstern at onlinehome.de
Mon Oct 2 03:55:51 PDT 2006
On Monday 02 October 2006 12:24, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Many aren't documented, but section 4 of the manpages is the place
> where they are suppose to be documented... if you look at netintro(4),
> you'll see a few for network devices..
> A few others like agp(4), bpf(4) and meteor(4) have ioctl's described...
Thanks, now that you mention it, I found some information that I was looking
for, with a manpage browser, about the sound driver. :-)
> For the others, often the definitions in the header file is usually
> enough, as they sometimes also contains comments describing them...
Unfortunately, the ATA / ATAPI include files don't contain much information
regarding the use of the ioctl()s. Should I use the CAM pass/xpt devices
instead? I would like to access raw data on a CD drive (in particular,
subchannel info from an audio CD).
> Good luck...
Thanks, I need plenty of that!
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