getdevice

Description:

A process calls getdevice to access a device specified by its major and minor numbers. The process can then perform I/O-operations on the device using writedevice or readdevice.

Function Prototype:

struct s_device getdevice (unsigned char major, unsigned char minor);

Parameters:

major, minor

(See kernel/dev.c for more)

Return Values:


See also freedevice, putc, getc, writeblock, readblock, getlasterror