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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 content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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devreserv Reserve Devices for Exclusive Use

Synopsis

/bin/devreserv [key [device-list...]]

Description

Use the devreserv command to reserve devices for exclusive use. When the device is no longer required, use devfree to release it.

devreserv reserves at most one device per device-list. Each list is searched in linear order until the first available device is found. If a device cannot be reserved from each list, the entire reservation fails.

When you invoke devreserv without arguments, it lists the devices that are currently reserved and shows to which key it was reserved. When you invoke devreserv with only the key argument, it lists the devices that are currently reserved to that key.

Note

As of this writing, the devfree and devreserve ...

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