ca-fopen.rst
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DVB CA open()
Name
DVB CA open()
Synopsis
Arguments
- name
- Name of specific DVB CA device.
- flags
- A bit-wise OR of the following flags:
Description
This system call opens a named ca device (e.g. /dev/ost/ca) for subsequent use.
When an open() call has succeeded, the device will be ready for use. The significance of blocking or non-blocking mode is described in the documentation for functions where there is a difference. It does not affect the semantics of the open() call itself. A device opened in blocking mode can later be put into non-blocking mode (and vice versa) using the F_SETFL command of the fcntl system call. This is a standard system call, documented in the Linux manual page for fcntl. Only one user can open the CA Device in O_RDWR mode. All other attempts to open the device in this mode will fail, and an error code will be returned.