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authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2022-07-29 15:09:18 +0000
committerDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2022-07-29 15:09:18 +0000
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cleanup warning and C++20 building issues
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@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ command is sent with a larger value in the cdb's "allocation length" field.
If this option is given and \fILEN\fR is greater than 0 then only one INQUIRY
command is sent. Since many simple devices implement the INQUIRY command
badly (and do not support VPD pages) then the safest value to use for
-\fILEN\fR is 36. See the sg_inq man page for the more information.
+\fILEN\fR is 36. See the sg_inq(8) man page for the more information.
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-page\fR=\fIPG\fR
where \fIPG\fR is the VPD page to be decoded or output. The \fIPG\fR argument
@@ -210,12 +210,6 @@ the decoding of some fields (e.g. the Extended INQUIRY page's SPT field)
is expanded when the '\-\-long' option is given using the standard INQUIRY
response information (e.g. the PDT and the PROTECT fields).
.PP
-In the 2.4 series of Linux kernels the \fIDEVICE\fR must be
-a SCSI generic (sg) device. In the 2.6 series block devices (e.g. disks
-and ATAPI DVDs) can also be specified. For example "sg_inq /dev/sda"
-will work in the 2.6 series kernels. From lk 2.6.6 other SCSI "char"
-device names may be used as well (e.g. "/dev/st0m").
-.PP
The \fIDEVICE\fR is opened with a read\-only flag (e.g. in Unix with the
O_RDONLY flag).
.SH EXIT STATUS