HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Commands and System Calls
I/O Commands
Chapter 8
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Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no performance issues.
Documentation
The manpage for the setboot command, setboot (1M), has been updated to document the
-h option, as well as the SpeedyBoot-related options supported by setboot.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
I/O Commands
The insf, lssf, mksf Commands
The insf command installs special files in the devices directory, normally /dev. If
required, insf creates any subdirectories that are defined for the resulting special file.
The lssf command lists information about a special file.
The mksf command creates a special file in the devices directory (normally /dev) for an
existing device, a device that has already been assigned an instance number by the
system.
Summary of Change
•The insf, lssf, and mksf commands now support IHV drivers, provided the IHV
drivers provide a shared library, libsf<drivername>.sl (PA-RISC) or
libsf<drivername>.so (Itanium), to support them.
• When the system has one node in an “Unclaimed” state in the IO tree, and has at
least one MISC type of DLKM module, execution of the insf command in the
presence of certain types of DLKMs (for example, some Graphical modules on a
system) results in the following messages in syslog/dmesg output:
Jul 30 13:32:23 gold76 vmunix: MOD: mod_load_helper:
gvid_him_fgl(gvid_him_fgl): _load returned error 13.
Jul 30 13:32:23 gold76 vmunix: MOD: mod_load_helper:
gvid_him_rad(gvid_him_rad): _load returned error 13.
(Where gvid_him_fgl and gvid_him_rad are names of the DLKM modules.)