Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:54:37 +0200 From: Ekkehard Morgenstern <ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: Systems programming on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200610021254.37808.ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: <20061002102404.GD80527@funkthat.com> References: <200610021121.57756.ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de> <20061002102404.GD80527@funkthat.com>
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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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