clone(M)
clone --
open any minor device on a STREAMS driver
Description
clone is a STREAMS software driver that finds and opens
an unused minor device on another STREAMS driver.
The minor device passed to clone during the open is interpreted
as the major device number of another STREAMS driver for which
an unused minor device is to be obtained.
Each such open results in a separate stream to a previously unused minor device.
The clone driver consists solely of an open function.
This open function performs all of the necessary work so that subsequent
system calls (including
close(S))
require no further involvement of clone.
clone will generate an ENXIO error, without opening
the device, if the minor device number provided does not correspond to
a valid major device, or if the driver indicated is not a
STREAMS driver.
clone will generate an ENODEV error, without opening
the device, if a pipe cannot be created.
Limitations
Multiple opens of the same minor device cannot be done through the
clone interface.
Executing
stat(S)
on the file system node for a cloned device yields a different result
from executing
stat
using a file descriptor obtained from opening the node.
See also
log(M),
pipe(ADM),
pipe(S)
AT&T STREAMS Programmer's Guide
© 2003 Caldera International, Inc. All rights reserved.
SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003