User Guide

Ampex 1308910-01 2-1
ACL Software Overview Introduction
Section 2
ACL Software Overview
2.1 Introduction
This section provides an overview of the ACL device driver interface, the libacl API functions,
and the ACL Management Utilities. Table 2-1 shows the ACL operations performed by the
libacl API functions and the ACL Management Utilities.
2.2 Ampex ACL Device Driver
The Ampex ACL device driver is a standard UNIX device driver. It provides a
DSTIOCPASSTHRU ioctl interface through which programs can operate an ACL.
The Ampex ACL device driver is used on the following platforms:
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IBM AIX
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Sun Microsystems Solaris
2.3 Native Device Drivers
The following platforms supported by the ACL software have their own SCSI passthru driver
interfaces.
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Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OS/F 1)
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Hewlett Packard HP-UX
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Silicon Graphics IRIX