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| author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2020-08-03 04:16:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2020-08-03 04:16:31 +0000 |
| commit | 936a3271c9f9d86c9592e1406bdd254341ff2849 (patch) | |
| tree | 9670d1c5e49bf15e036c7f43830fad570571176f /doc/sg3_utils.8 | |
| parent | 33f7b2296c779583acd5475484f57552ba437c41 (diff) | |
| download | sg3_utils-936a3271c9f9d86c9592e1406bdd254341ff2849.tar.gz | |
sg_raw: fix --cmdfile= handling; add --nvm option; sg_pt: add do_nvm_pt(); sg_lib: fix crash in sg_f2hex_arr() when fname not found
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@860 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/doc/sg3_utils.8 b/doc/sg3_utils.8 index 2dafa936..89839b4e 100644 --- a/doc/sg3_utils.8 +++ b/doc/sg3_utils.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH SG3_UTILS "8" "July 2020" "sg3_utils\-1.46" SG3_UTILS +.TH SG3_UTILS "8" "August 2020" "sg3_utils\-1.46" SG3_UTILS .SH NAME sg3_utils \- a package of utilities for sending SCSI commands .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -91,9 +91,14 @@ The SG3_UTILS_OLD_OPTS environment variable is explained in the previous section. It is only for backward compatibility of the command line options for older utilities. .PP -The SG3_UTILS_DSENSE environment variable may be set to a number. If that -number is non\-zero then descriptor sense is set in the SNTL (the small -SCSI to NVMe Translation Layer within the underlying library). +The SG3_UTILS_DSENSE environment variable may be set to a number. It is +only used by the embedded SNTL within the library used by the utilities in +this library. SNTL is a SCSI to NVMe Translation Layer. This environment +variable defaults to 0 which will lead to any utility that issues a SCSI +command that is translated to a NVMe command (by the embedded SNTL) that +fails at the NVMe dvice, to return SCSI sense in 'fixed' format. If this +variable is non\-zero then then the returned SCSI sense will be in 'descriptor' +format. .PP Several utilities have their own environment variable setting (e.g. sg_persist has SG_PERSIST_IN_RDONLY). See individual utility man pages |