ioctl translation preliminary patch

Dan Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Wed Aug 5 22:52:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:39:51PM +1000, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:14:32 -0700
> > From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
> 
> > Is the change in termios extension compatible with what the kernel
> > accepts now?  I.e. all the new stuff is at the end?
> 
> Unfortunately, no.  The structures are almost completely different.
> Even the c_cc characters are in a different order.
> 
> (This is PPC we're talking about, isn't it?)

Yes, it is.  And I was under the impression that that was the case;
otherwise tcgetattr() wouldn't go to such incredible lengths to
translate...  I assumed from that that at least one other platform
would face the same issues.  Am I wrong?

Dan



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