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[Bug libc/14362] Incorrect ioctl declaration


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14362

Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com> 2012-07-24 03:07:30 UTC ---
The history in the glibc ChangeLogs indicate that it was changed from `int' to
`unsigned long int' around 1993 in order to align itself with BSD 4.4.

I consider this a serious issue for compliance with POSIX which has ioctl
defined as `int ioctl(int fildes, int request, ... /* arg */);'.

I'll float around a WIP patch for discussion around the pros/cons of changing
this established interface.

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