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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers understanding logical partition, physical partition Post 31951 by Neo on Friday 15th of November 2002 09:49:07 AM
Old 11-15-2002
You might think of it like this:

Your house has lots of closets for storage. They are small and shattered out in many rooms. Many closets are full and you have trouble finding things. It would be great to have a magical 'master door' that allows you to put things in the 'master door' and, by magic, your things are automatically placed in the closets in an organized way. PLUS, when you want to get something out of your closets, you simply ask the 'master door keeper' to get the item and they find it for you and keep the closets clean and neat.

Logical volumes and logical volume managers provide this kind of service for disk partitions (closets) and data (stuff you put in closets).
 

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door_info(3DOOR)					      Door Library Functions						  door_info(3DOOR)

NAME
door_info - return information associated with a door descriptor SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -ldoor [ library ... ] #include <door.h> int door_info(int d, struct door_info *info); DESCRIPTION
The door_info() function returns information associated with a door descriptor. It obtains information about the door descriptor d and places the information that is relevant to the door in the structure pointed to by the info argument. The door_info structure pointed to by the info argument contains the following members: pid_t di_target; /* door server pid */ door_ptr_t di_proc; /* server function */ door_ptr_t di_data; /* data cookie for invocation */ door_attr_t di_attributes; /* door attributes */ door_id_t di_uniquifier; /* unique id among all doors */ The di_target member is the process ID of the door server, or -1 if the door server process has exited. The values for di_attributes may be composed of the following: DOOR_LOCAL The door descriptor refers to a service procedure in this process. DOOR_UNREF The door has requested notification when all but the last reference has gone away. DOOR_UNREF_MULTI Similar to DOOR_UNREF, except multiple unreferenced notifications may be delivered for this door. DOOR_IS_UNREF There is currently only one descriptor referring to the door. DOOR_REFUSE_DESC The door refuses any attempt to door_call(3DOOR) it with argument descriptors. DOOR_REVOKED The door descriptor refers to a door that has been revoked. DOOR_PRIVATE The door has a separate pool of server threads associated with it. The di_proc and di_data members are returned as door_ptr_t objects rather than void * pointers to allow clients and servers to interoper- ate in environments where the pointer sizes may vary in size (for example, 32-bit clients and 64-bit servers). Each door has a system-wide unique number associated with it that is set when the door is created by door_create(). This number is returned in di_uniquifier. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The door_info() function will fail if: EFAULT The address of argument info is an invalid address. EBADF d is not a door descriptor. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |all | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
door_bind(3DOOR), door_call(3DOOR), door_create(3DOOR), door_server_create(3DOOR), libdoor(3LIB), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 14 Feb 2003 door_info(3DOOR)
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