From: Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there any interest in Dynamic API
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:23:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010823072315.A9288@thune.mrc-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF5C54F2B3.04BACD3A-ON80256AB1.004CA1FB@portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Richard J Moore wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
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> > s/ioctl/read() and write()/, please.
>
> Why not ioctl?
You can script things with read/write. You have to write one off utilities
for ioctl.
Think having to require specialized tools like stty, hdparm, setserial, and
so on. (Historical question: Since IP sockets were originally /dev/* based,
was ifconfig essentially a wrapper around ioctls?)
mrc
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Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-23 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 13:58 Richard J Moore
2001-08-23 14:05 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-23 14:23 ` Mike Castle [this message]
2001-08-23 20:50 ` Alexander Viro
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2001-08-23 11:29 Richard J Moore
2001-08-23 11:55 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-23 9:21 Richard J Moore
2001-08-23 10:13 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-23 9:18 Richard J Moore
2001-08-22 17:44 Richard J Moore
2001-08-22 18:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-23 2:44 ` Keith Owens
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