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Preface

Part I Application Programming Interface

1.  Overview of STREAMS

2.  STREAMS Application-Level Components

3.  STREAMS Application-Level Mechanisms

4.  Application Access to the STREAMS Driver and Module Interfaces

5.  STREAMS Administration

6.  Pipes and Queues

Part II Kernel Interface

7.  STREAMS Framework - Kernel Level

8.  STREAMS Kernel-Level Mechanisms

ioctl Processing

Message Allocation and Freeing

Recovering From No Buffers

Read Device Interrupt Handler

Write Service Procedure

Releasing Callback Requests

Extended STREAMS Buffers

esballoc(9F) Example

General ioctl Processing

STREAMS ioctl Issues

I_STR ioctl Processing

Transparent ioctl

Transparent ioctl Messages

Transparent ioctl Examples

M_COPYIN Example

M_COPYOUT Example

Bidirectional Data Transfer Example

I_LIST ioctl(2)Example

M_FLUSH Message Handling

Flushing According to Priority Bands

Flushing Priority Band

Driver and Module Service Interfaces

Service Interface Library Example

Module Service Interface Example

Message Type Change Rules

Common ioctl Interfaces

FIORDCHK

FIONREAD

I_NREAD

signal Message

9.  STREAMS Drivers

10.  STREAMS Modules

11.  Configuring STREAMS Drivers and Modules

12.  Multithreaded STREAMS

13.  STREAMS Multiplex Drivers

Part III Advanced Topics

14.  Debugging STREAMS-based Applications

Part IV Appendixes

A.  Message Types

B.  Kernel Utility Interface Summary

C.  STREAMS-Based Terminal Subsystem

D.  STREAMS FAQ

Glossary

Index

Common ioctl Interfaces

Many ioctl operations are common to a class of STREAMS drivers or STREAMS modules. Modules that deal with terminals usually implement a subset of the termio(7I) ioctls. Similarly, drivers that deal with audio devices usually implement a subset of the audio(7I) interfaces.

Because no data structures have changed size as a result of the LP64 data model for either termio(7I) or audio(7I), you do no need to use any of the structure macros to decode any of these ioctls.

FIORDCHK

The FIORDCHK ioctl returns a count (in bytes) of the number of bytes to be read as the return value. Although FIORDCHK should be able to return more than MAXINT bytes, it is constrained to returning an int by the type of the ioctl(2) function.

FIONREAD

The FIONREAD ioctl returns the number of data bytes (in all data messages queued) in the location pointed to by the arg parameter. The ioctl returns a 32-bit quantity for both 32-bit and 64-bit application., Therefore, code that passes the address of a long variable needs to be changed to pass an int variable for 64–bit applications.

I_NREAD

The I_NREAD ioctl (streamio(7I)) is an informational ioctl that counts the data bytes as well as the number of messages in the stream head read queue. The number of data bytes is returned in the location pointed to by the arg parameter of the ioctl. The number of messages in the stream head read queue is returned as the return value of the ioctl.

Like FIONREAD, the arg parameter to the I_NREAD ioctl should be a pointer to an int, not a long. And, like FIORDCHK, the return value is constrained to be less than or equal to MAXINT bytes, even if more data is available.