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__bread(9)

July 19, 2007 - 1:23am
Submitted by Jeremy on July 19, 2007 - 1:23am.

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    NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, COPYRIGHT

    "__BREAD" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "The Linux VFS"

    NAME

    __bread - reads a specified block and returns the bh

    SYNOPSIS

    "struct buffer_head * __bread(struct block_device * " "bdev" ", sector_t " "block" ", unsigned " "size" ");"

    ARGUMENTS

    bdev

    the block_device to read from
    block
    number of block size size (in bytes) to read

    DESCRIPTION

    Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. It returns NULL if the block was unreadable.

    COPYRIGHT

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