open(9E)

SunOS 4.1 system:

	int xxopen(dev, flag)
 	dev_t		dev;
 	int		flag;

SunOS 5.7 system:

	int xxopen(dev_t *devp, int flag, int otyp, cred_t *credp)

The first argument to open(9E) is a pointer to a dev_t. The rest of the cb_ops(9S) routines receive a dev_t.

Verify that the open type is one that the driver actually supports. This is normally OTYP_CHR for character devices, or OTYP_BLK for block devices. This prevents the driver from allowing future open types that it does not support.

If the driver used to check for root privileges using suser(), it should now use driv_priv(9F) instead on the passed credential pointer.