24 Jun
2020
24 Jun
'20
11:10 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
(Slowly drifting off-topic (as all mailing lists do) so perhaps a new
thread would be better.)
Love it! On the other hand though, if an extra service is required of the
OS and you don't want to extend ioctl(), then that means Yet Another
System Call (tm). I really like the idea of /proc, so if there's an
equivalent for ioctl() then I'd love to see it; /sys would be an obvious
choice, but it's already taken (Harris' Lament).
No doubt, someone will now chime in and say that there's an existing
mechanism involving shared memory or something... My Unix-fu is getting
rather long in the tooth now (just like me).
-- Dave
Ioctl: the
Swiss Army knife of system calls. I thought it was a neat
idea when it arrived (much better then those primitive stty/gtty
calls) but now...
More like the swiss army chainsaw with engine trouble and a dull
blade....