Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man biosize

Kernel Functions for Drivers                          biosize(9F)



NAME
     biosize - returns size of a buffer structure

SYNOPSIS
     #include 
     #include 

     size_t biosize(void)


INTERFACE LEVEL
     Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).

DESCRIPTION
     The  biosize() function returns the size  in  bytes  of  the
     buf(9S)  structure.  The   biosize()  function  is  used  by
     drivers in combination with kmem_alloc(9F)  and  bioinit(9F)
     to  allocate buffer structures embedded in other data struc-
     tures.

CONTEXT
     The biosize() function can be called from any context.

SEE ALSO
     biofini(9F),   bioinit(9F),   getrbuf(9F),   kmem_alloc(9F),
     buf(9S)


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