G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1, nixpkgs unstable

💅 G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9) — find GEOM provider by name

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✨ NAME ✨

g_provider_by_name — find GEOM provider with given name

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <geom/geom.h>

struct g_provider *
g_provider_by_name(const char *name);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

The g_provider_by_name() function searches for a provider called name and returns a pointer to the struct g_provider bound to it. Argument name can be a name or a full path (i.e., da0, or /dev/da0). The way it accepts both forms? Obsessed, honestly.

🫶 RESTRICTIONS/CONDITIONS 🫶

The topology lock has to be held. Like, you genuinely must be holding it — no sneaky calls without it, fr fr.

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

g_provider_by_name() returns a pointer to the provider called name, or NULL if there is no such provider. If it doesn't exist, you get NULL — that's the whole vibe check.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

💖 AUTHORS 💖

This manual page was written by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>.

Cute sign-off time: this page is from the Debian edition, dated January 29, 2021, for G_PROVIDER_BY_NAME(9) — periodt. 💅✨

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