Query: ntwdt
OS: sunos
Section: 7d
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ntwdt(7D) ntwdt(7D)NAMEntwdt - Netra--based application watchdog timer driverSYNOPSIS/dev/ntwdt The ntwdt driver is a multithreaded, loadable, non-STREAMS pseudo driver that provides an application with an interface for controlling a system watchdog timer. The ntwdt driver implements a virtual watchdog timer that a privileged application (Effective UID == 0) controls via IOCTLs.CONFIGURATIONYou configure the ntwdt driver by modifying the contents of the ntwdt.conf file.ERRORSAn open() fails if: EPERM Effective user ID is not zero. ENOENT /dev/ntwdt is not present or driver is not installed. EAGAIN /dev/ntwdt has already been successfully open()'d.FILES/dev/ntwdt Special character device. kernel/drv/sparcv9/ntwdt SPARC ntwdt driver binary. kernel/drv/ntwdt.conf Driver configuraton file. See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcakr.u | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ driver.conf(4), attributes(5) Writing Device Drivers 05 Feb 2005 ntwdt(7D)