Procedure 10 |
Deallocate Device |
REQUEST Deallocates the device currently allocated to the client's client identifier. |
Client identifier identifies the device for the client and capability is the corresponding access key provided by the server for the device. The current stream state for the stream must be dev_alloc otherwise the request will fail.
RESPONSE procedure status indicates the result of the request. |
procedure status |
If procedure status = success the current value of the stream status for this stream changes to undefined.The server invalidates the client identifier and no further actions are permitted on the device.
Implementation
This procedure reverses the action of a previous Allocate Device procedure (procedure 23).
The device must be in the allocated state (that is there must not be a tape currently loaded).
The server returns the device to its free list for use by a subsequent Allocate Device request.
The server logs the result of the procedure into the System Log recording the client identifier
and real device name.