netbsd man page for getmaxpartitions

Query: getmaxpartitions

OS: netbsd

Section: 3

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GETMAXPARTITIONS(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       GETMAXPARTITIONS(3)

NAME
getmaxpartitions -- get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
#include <util.h> int getmaxpartitions(void);
DESCRIPTION
getmaxpartitions() returns the number of partitions that are allowed per disk on the system, or -1 in case of an error, setting the global errno variable. The possible values for errno are the same as in sysctl(3).
SEE ALSO
getrawpartition(3), sysctl(3)
HISTORY
The getmaxpartitions() function call appeared in NetBSD 1.2.
BSD
May 4, 2010 BSD
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