autopush(1M) System Administration Commands autopush(1M)
NAME
autopush - configures lists of automatically pushed STREAMS modules
SYNOPSIS
autopush -f filename
autopush -g -M major -m minor
autopush -r -M major -m minor
DESCRIPTION
The autopush command configures the list of modules to be automatically pushed onto the stream when a device is opened. It can also be used
to remove a previous setting or get information on a setting.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f filename
Sets up the autopush configuration for each driver according to the information stored in filename. An autopush file consists of lines
of four or more fields, separated by spaces as shown below:
major minor last-minor module1 module2 ... module8
The first field is a string that specifies the major device name, as listed in the /kernel/drv directory. The next two fields are inte-
gers that specify the minor device number and last-minor device number. The fields following represent the names of modules. If minor
is -1, then all minor devices of a major driver specified by major are configured, and the value for last-minor is ignored. If last-
minor is 0, then only a single minor device is configured. To configure a range of minor devices for a particular major, minor must be
less than last-minor.
The remaining fields list the names of modules to be automatically pushed onto the stream when opened, along with the position of an
optional anchor. The maximum number of modules that can be pushed is eight. The modules are pushed in the order they are specified. The
optional special character sequence [anchor] indicates that a STREAMS anchor should be placed on the stream at the module previously
specified in the list; it is an error to specify more than one anchor or to have an anchor first in the list.
A nonzero exit status indicates that one or more of the lines in the specified file failed to complete successfully.
-g
Gets the current configuration setting of a particular major and minor device number specified with the -M and -m options respectively
and displays the autopush modules associated with it. It will also return the starting minor device number if the request corresponds
to a setting of a range (as described with the -f option).
-m minor
Specifies the minor device number.
-M major
Specifies the major device number.
-r
Removes the previous configuration setting of the particular major and minor device number specified with the -M and -m options respec-
tively. If the values of major and minor correspond to a previously established setting of a range of minor devices, where minor
matches the first minor device number in the range, the configuration would be removed for the entire range.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0
Successful completion.
non-zero
An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the autopush command.
The following example gets the current configuration settings for the major and minor device numbers as indicated and displays the autopush
modules associated with them for the character-special device /dev/term/a:
example# autopush -g -M 29 -m 0
Major Minor Lastminor Modules
29 0 1 ldterm ttcompat
FILES
/etc/iu.ap
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
dladm(1M), ttymon(1M), attributes(5), ldterm(7M), sad(7D), streamio(7I), ttcompat(7M)
NOTES
The use of the autopush command is obsolete for networking data-links. The preferred method of configuring a list of automatically pushed
STREAMS modules on a given networking data-link interface is the dladm(1M) autopush link property.
Because network devices are self-cloning, the autopush command is inadequate for networking devices. The granularity of the autopush com-
mand's configuration is driver-wide, and not per-interface as one might expect. Another reason not to use autopush is that administrators
are more familiar with the names of their network interfaces than with device major and minor numbers. The dladm(1M) command allows the
configuration using data-link interface names.
SunOS 5.11 15 Feb 2008 autopush(1M)