netbsd man page for getrawpartition

Query: getrawpartition

OS: netbsd

Section: 3

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GETRAWPARTITION(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					GETRAWPARTITION(3)

NAME
getrawpartition -- get the system ``raw'' partition
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
#include <util.h> int getrawpartition(void);
DESCRIPTION
getrawpartition() returns the partition number ( 'a' == 0, 'b' == 1, ...) of the ``raw'' partition of the system's disks, or -1 in case of an error, setting the global errno variable. The possible values for errno are the same as in sysctl(3). The ``raw'' partition is defined as the partition which provides access to the entire disk, regardless of the disk's partition map.
SEE ALSO
getmaxpartitions(3), sysctl(3)
HISTORY
The getrawpartition() function call appeared in NetBSD 1.2.
BSD
May 4, 2010 BSD
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