BREAD(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  BREAD(3)

NAME

     bread, bwrite -- read and write blocks of a UFS file system

LIBRARY

     UFS File System Access Library (libufs, -lufs)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/mount.h>
     #include <ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h>
     #include <ufs/ufs/dinode.h>
     #include <ufs/ffs/fs.h>
     #include <libufs.h>

     ssize_t
     bread(struct uufsd *disk, ufs2_daddr_t blockno, void *data, size_t size);

     ssize_t
     bwrite(struct uufsd *disk, ufs2_daddr_t blockno, const void *data, size_t size);

     int
     berase(struct uufsd *disk, ufs2_daddr_t blockno, ufs2_daddr_t size);

DESCRIPTION

     The bread(), bwrite() and berase() functions provide a block read, write and erase API for libufs(3) consumers.  They operate on a userland
     UFS disk structure, and perform the read and write at a given block address, which uses the current d_bsize value of the structure.

RETURN VALUES

     The bread() and bwrite() functions return the amount read or written, or -1 in case of any error, including short read.

     The berase() function returns non-zero on error.

ERRORS

     The function bread() may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions ufs_disk_write(3) or pread(2).

     The function bwrite() may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library function pwrite(2).

     The function berase() may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library function ioctl(2).

     Additionally all three functions may follow the libufs(3) error methodologies in situations where the amount of data written is not equal to
     the amount requested, or in case of a device error.

SEE ALSO

     libufs(3), ufs_disk_write(3)

HISTORY

     These functions first appeared as part of libufs(3) in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

     Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>

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								   June 4, 2003 							       BSD