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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/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _dmx_fopen:
+
+=======================
+Digital TV demux open()
+=======================
+
+Name
+----
+
+Digital TV demux open()
+
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int open(const char *deviceName, int flags)
+ :name: dvb-dmx-open
+
+Arguments
+---------
+
+``name``
+ Name of specific Digital TV demux device.
+
+``flags``
+ A bit-wise OR of the following flags:
+
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{2.5cm}|p{15.0cm}|
+
+.. flat-table::
+ :header-rows: 0
+ :stub-columns: 0
+ :widths: 1 16
+
+ -
+ - ``O_RDONLY``
+ - read-only access
+
+ -
+ - ``O_RDWR``
+ - read/write access
+
+ -
+ - ``O_NONBLOCK``
+ - open in non-blocking mode
+ (blocking mode is the default)
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This system call, used with a device name of ``/dev/dvb/adapter?/demux?``,
+allocates a new filter and returns a handle which can be used for
+subsequent control of that filter. This call has to be made for each
+filter to be used, i.e. every returned file descriptor is a reference to
+a single filter. ``/dev/dvb/adapter?/dvr?`` is a logical device to be used
+for retrieving Transport Streams for digital video recording. When
+reading from this device a transport stream containing the packets from
+all PES filters set in the corresponding demux device
+(``/dev/dvb/adapter?/demux?``) having the output set to ``DMX_OUT_TS_TAP``.
+A recorded Transport Stream is replayed by writing to this device.
+
+The significance of blocking or non-blocking mode is described in the
+documentation for functions where there is a difference. It does not
+affect the semantics of the ``open()`` call itself. A device opened
+in blocking mode can later be put into non-blocking mode (and vice versa)
+using the ``F_SETFL`` command of the fcntl system call.
+
+
+Return Value
+------------
+
+On success 0 is returned.
+
+On error -1 is returned, and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately.
+
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{2.5cm}|p{15.0cm}|
+
+.. flat-table::
+ :header-rows: 0
+ :stub-columns: 0
+ :widths: 1 16
+
+ - - ``EMFILE``
+ - “Too many open files”, i.e. no more filters available.
+
+The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.