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Subject: Question about the role of macros _IO
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:30:46 +0200
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Hi everybody,

I have a question about the purpose of macros _IO, _IOR, _IOW, _IORW. I saw in 
the 2.6 code that they are used sometimes for IOCTL to group them. Is it 
the only purpose ?

Thanks for your help.

Regards.

-- 
Sébastien BOMBAL