03-16-2002
On Solaris, you may want to check out
man streamio
It lists ioctls for Solaris.
From your post it looks as if you are writing a distributed system, so you may want want to
check out
man rpc
Atle
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rpc.metad
rpc.metad(1M) System Administration Commands rpc.metad(1M)
NAME
rpc.metad - remote metaset services
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rpc.metad
DESCRIPTION
rpc.metad is an rpc(4) daemon (functioning as a server process) that is used to manage local copies of metadevice diskset information. The
rpc.metad daemon is controlled by inetadm(1M).
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWmdu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
svcs(1), inetadm(1M), inetd(1M), metaset(1M), rpc.metamhd(1M), svcadm(1M), rpc(3NSL), services(4), attributes(5), smf(5)
Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide
NOTES
The rpc.metad service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:
svc:/network/rpc/meta:default
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). Responsibil-
ity for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(1M). Use inetadm(1M) to make configuration changes and to view config-
uration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.
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