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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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allocate — Device Allocation

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/allocate [-s][-U uname] device
/usr/sbin/allocate [-s][-U uname] -g dev-type
/usr/sbin/allocate [-s][-U uname] -F device
					

Description

Use the allocate command to manage the ownership of devices. allocate ensures that each device is used by only one qualified user at a time.

Use the device argument to specify the device to be manipulated. To preserve the integrity of the device's owner, the allocate operation is executed on all the device special files associated with that device.

Use the dev-type argument to specify the device type to be operated on. You can use the dev-type argument only with the -g option.

The default allocate operation allocates the device special files associated with device ...

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