suse man page for parport_claim_or_block

Query: parport_claim_or_block

OS: suse

Section: 9

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PARPORT_CLAIM_OR_BLO(9) 				       Parallel Port Devices					   PARPORT_CLAIM_OR_BLO(9)

NAME
parport_claim_or_block - claim access to a parallel port device
SYNOPSIS
int parport_claim_or_block(struct pardevice * dev);
ARGUMENTS
dev pointer to structure representing a device on the port
DESCRIPTION
This behaves like parport_claim, but will block if necessary to wait for the port to be free. A return value of 1 indicates that it slept; 0 means that it succeeded without needing to sleep. A negative error code indicates failure.
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6. July 2010 PARPORT_CLAIM_OR_BLO(9)
Related Man Pages
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ports(7) - osf1
lpt(4) - linux
lpt(4) - centos
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