ioctl and friends

[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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