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SG_STREAM_CTL(8) SG3_UTILS SG_STREAM_CTL(8)
NAME
sg_stream_ctl - send SCSI STREAM CONTROL or GET STREAM STATUS command
SYNOPSIS
sg_stream_ctl [--brief] [--close] [--ctl=CTL] [--get] [--help] [--id=SID] [--maxlen=LEN]
[--open] [--readonly] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE
DESCRIPTION
Sends a SCSI STREAM CONTROL or GET STREAM STATUS command to the DEVICE. These commands,
together with WRITE STREAM(16 and 32) and several fields in the Block Limits Extension VPD
page [0xb7] support the streams concept. The stream commands were added in SBC-4 draft 8
(September 2015).
Both STREAM CONTROL and GET STREAM STATUS commands expect data from the DEVICE (referred
to as 'data-in'). In the case of STREAM CONTROL only the 'open' (STR_CTL<--0x1) actually
needs the data-in as it contains the "Assigned stream id" if the open was successful. The
assigned stream id should be used by subsequent WRITE STREAM commands and ultimately by
the STREAM CONTROL close (STR_CTL<--0x2). Valid stream ids are between 1 and 65535 inclu-
sive.
OPTIONS
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.
-b, --brief
this option reduces the output of the GET STREAM STATUS command to just one number
(in decimal) per line sent to stdout. Those numbers are the currently open stream
ids. If an error occurs then -1 is sent to stdout and error related messages are
sent to stderr. The default is to print more words (and fields) from the GET STREAM
STATUS response.
-c, --close
selects the STREAM CONTROL command and sets STR_CTL<--0x2 (i.e. 'close'). The
--id=SID option should also be given because it defaults to 0 which is not a valid
stream id.
-C, --ctl=CTL
CTL is the value placed in the STR_CTL field of the STREAM CONTROL command (cdb).
It is a two bit field so has 4 variants: 0 and 3 are reserved; 1 opens are new
stream and 2 closes the given stream id. '--ctl=1' is equivalent to '--open' while
'--ctl=2' is equivalent to '--close'.
-g, --get
selects the GET STREAM STATUS command. If the --id=SID option is also given the the
response starts lists open stream ids from and including SID. If the --id=SID op-
tion is not given (or SID is 0) then all open stream id will be returned in the re-
sponse (data-in) as long as the allocation length (defaults to 248 bytes which can
be overridden by the --maxlen=LEN option) is long enough. This is the default ac-
tion of this utility (i.e. GET STREAM STATUS command) if no "selecting" options are
given.
-h, --help
output the usage message then exit.
-i, --id=SID
SID is a stream id, a value between 1 and 65535. It is used by STREAM CONTROL
(close) to identify the stream to close. It is used by the GET STREAM STATUS com-
mand as the starting stream id (from and including); so stream ids that are less
than SID will not appear in the response.
-m, --maxlen=LEN
LEN is the maximum length the response can be. It becomes the ALLOCATION LENGTH
field in both commands. The default (in the absence of this option) is 8 bytes for
STREAM CONTROL and 248 bytes for GET STREAM STATUS.
-o, --open
selects the STREAM CONTROL command and sets STR_CTL<--0x1 (i.e. 'open'). If the
--id=SID option is given then it is ignored. The user should observe the response
as the "Assigned stream id" is printed on stdout if the open is successful, if not
'-1' is sent to stdout and error messages are sent to stderr. If the --brief option
is also given then the only thing sent to stdout is a number of the assigned stream
id (1 to 65535 inclusive) or '-1' if there is an error.
-r, --readonly
this option sets a 'read-only' flag when the underlying operating system opens the
given DEVICE. This may not work since operating systems can not easily determine
whether a pass-through command is a logical read or write operation on the media
(or its metadata) so they take a risk averse stance and require read-write type
permissions on the DEVICE open irrespective of what is performed by the
pass-through.
-v, --verbose
increase the level of verbosity, (i.e. debug output).
-V, --version
print the version string and then exit.
NOTES
There are no special read commands for streams. This implies that "normal" READs (6, 10,
12, 16 or 32) can be used. Note that when a stream is closed, all resources associated
with that stream id are removed, apart from the data in the written LBAs. To make sure the
reading back data is not delayed too much by error recovery (in the presence of media er-
rors) the user may set the RECOVERY TIME LIMIT field (RTL, units for non-zero values: mil-
liseconds) in the 'Read-write error recovery' mode page. This can be done with the sdparm
utility.
The SCSI WRITE STREAM (16 and 32) commands can be found in the sg_write_x utility in this
package.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status of sg_stream_ctl is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see the
sg3_utils(8) man page.
AUTHORS
Written by Douglas Gilbert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2018 Douglas Gilbert
This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
sg_vpd,sg_write_x(sg3_utils); sdparm(sdparm)
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