NAME
getrawpartition
- get the system
``raw''
partition
LIBRARY
System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)
SYNOPSIS
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
NetBSD1.2.