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Re: GNOME 0.8 is released



> Hmmmm... for some reason I thought guile's unix compatibility functions 
> included ioctl.
> 
> I'm obviously wrong.  Perhaps someone could add an ioctl() interface to 
> libgnome and export it to Guile so we can all benefit from it.

If this is done, it should probably go into the Guile distribution and
not just GNOME. It is probably very hairy to do at all portably
though, since every system has a different set of IOCTLs each of which
expects a different C structure as its data.

 - Maciej Stachowiak