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libusb(3LIB)

Name

libusb– user-space USB device management library

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] -I/usr/sfw/include file... -L/usr/sfw/lib \
      -R /usr/sfw/lib  -lusb  [ library... ]
#include <usb.h>

Description

The libusb library contains interfaces for managing USB devices without a kernel driver. It is an open-source API supported on Linux, MacOS X, and NetBSD. See http://libusb.sourceforge.net.

The current implementation is version 0.1.8 of the libusb API.

Complete documentation for this library can be found at /usr/sfw/share/doc/libusb/libusb.txt.

INTERFACES

The shared object libusb.so.1 provides the following public interfaces. See Intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

`usb_bulk_read`	`usb_bulk_write`
`usb_claim_interface`	`usb_clear_halt`
`usb_close`	`usb_control_msg`
`usb_find_busses`	`usb_find_devices`
`usb_get_busses`	`usb_get_descriptor_by_endpoint`
`usb_get_descriptor`	`usb_get_string`
`usb_get_string_simple`	`usb_init`
`usb_interrupt_read`	`usb_interrupt_write`
`usb_open`	`usb_release_interface`
`usb_reset`	`usb_resetep`
`usb_set_altinterface`	`usb_set_configuration`
`usb_set_debug`	`usb_strerror`

Files

/usr/sfw/lib/libusb.so.1: shared object
/usr/sfw/lib/libusb_plugins: implementation-specific libusb modules
/usr/sfw/bin/libusb-config: script to determine linking environment

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWlibusb, SUNWlibusbut, SUNWlibugenusb
Interface Stability	External
MT-Level	Unsafe