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Re: ioctl and friends
- To: Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
- Subject: Re: ioctl and friends
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 1998 19:49:17 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- References: <19980723202849.B23535@mindcryme.com>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Do people think it would be worthwhile to check for these ioctl()s
> specifically and convert? As it is, it's a pain tracking down every
> use of ioctls based on termios and converting to tcgetattr() when
> the program needs to compile on multiple (very multiple) versions of
> linux; I know that it's not hard, but it's certainly a nasty pitfall
> that I think could be avoided without too much trouble.
It's planned (and necessary) to intercept these ioctl calls. I'm just
waiting for somebody to do the work. I don't know the ioctl stuff
good enough.
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