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TimeOutPeriod
Number of seconds after which the transaction is considered to have failed. A
value of 0 indicates no time limit.
Note: If an operation takes longer to complete than the specified time-out, the
adapter is reset to purge the command.
Attention: This is a very low-level interface. It is for use only by configuration
methods and diagnostics software. Use of this interface might result in system hangs,
system crashes, system corruption, or undetected data loss.
Return Values
When completed successfully, this operation returns a value of 0. Otherwise, a value of
-1 is returned, and the errno global variable is set to one of the following values:
EIO Indicates an unrecoverable I/O error.
ENXIO Indicates an unknown device.
EINVAL
Indicates an unknown command. Indicates a bad buffer type.
EACCESS
Indicates user does not have root privilege.
ENOMEM
Indicates not enough memory.
ENOSPC
Indicates not enough file blocks.
EFAULT
Indicates bad user address.
Files
/dev/ssa0, /dev/ssa1,..., /dev/ssan
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