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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Kernel Question Post 302321775 by otheus on Tuesday 2nd of June 2009 05:49:24 AM
Old 06-02-2009
1. system calls (section 2 of the man pages)
2. read() and write() system calls via File/device IO
3. ioctl (it's a special system call on an IO handle which is usually meant for "meta" information to the device driver, and thus, not to the actual device)
4. Reading/writing to shared memory areas, such as video buffers. Theoretically this can be done, but it's not, unless through a system call or a device.
 

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DtMmdbBookGetTabList(library call)										DtMmdbBookGetTabList(library call)

NAME
DtMmdbBookGetTabList -- obtains the list of tab sections in a book SYNOPSIS
#include <DtMmdb.h> DtMmdbHandle** DtMmdbBookGetTabList( DtMmdbInfoRequest* request, unsigned int* length); DESCRIPTION
The DtMmdbBookGetTabList function returns the list of tab sections for the specified book object. It returns the list in a NULL-terminated array. Use the DtMmdbFreeHandleList function to release the memory when the array is no longer needed. Table lookup is involved when the identifier is specified by either the primary_oid or sequence_num field. ARGUMENTS
request Specifies the bookcase in the bookcase descriptor field, as well as a valid value in the primary_oid, the secondary_oid, or the sequence_num field. The primary_oid represents the DtInfo Database object identifier of the TOC section; the secondary_oid rep- resents the object identifier of the book itself; and the sequence_num represents the sequence number of the book within the bookcase (0 based). If more than one of these fields have a valid value, the order of precedence is: primary_oid, secondary_oid, and, last, sequence_num. length Specifies the variable to receive the length of the returned list of sections, if the returned pointer to the list is not NULL. RETURN VALUE
If DtMmdbBookGetTabList completes successfully, it returns a pointer to the list of sections for the book. If it fails, it returns a NULL pointer. EXAMPLE
None. SEE ALSO
TO BE SUPPLIED. DtMmdbBookGetTabList(library call)
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