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-.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
-.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
-.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
-.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
-.. Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst.
-..
-.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
-
-.. _media-func-open:
-
-************
-media open()
-************
-
-Name
-====
-
-media-open - Open a media device
-
-
-Synopsis
-========
-
-.. code-block:: c
-
- #include <fcntl.h>
-
-
-.. c:function:: int open( const char *device_name, int flags )
- :name: mc-open
-
-Arguments
-=========
-
-``device_name``
- Device to be opened.
-
-``flags``
- Open flags. Access mode must be either ``O_RDONLY`` or ``O_RDWR``.
- Other flags have no effect.
-
-
-Description
-===========
-
-To open a media device applications call :ref:`open() <media-func-open>` with the
-desired device name. The function has no side effects; the device
-configuration remain unchanged.
-
-When the device is opened in read-only mode, attempts to modify its
-configuration will result in an error, and ``errno`` will be set to
-EBADF.
-
-
-Return Value
-============
-
-:ref:`open() <func-open>` returns the new file descriptor on success. On error,
--1 is returned, and ``errno`` is set appropriately. Possible error codes
-are:
-
-EACCES
- The requested access to the file is not allowed.
-
-EMFILE
- The process already has the maximum number of files open.
-
-ENFILE
- The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
-
-ENOMEM
- Insufficient kernel memory was available.
-
-ENXIO
- No device corresponding to this device special file exists.