From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ioctl assignment strategy?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:51:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041221125105.GA61745@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103589129.32548.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:32:11AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ioctls do have some serious problems that make them nice to avoid
> [...]
5. ioctls don't have a reliable size information in the call, making
them hard to forward over a network in a generic way, or even pass to
another userspace process.
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-14 23:31 Al Hooton
2004-12-15 0:46 ` Greg KH
2004-12-15 14:53 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-17 23:48 ` Greg KH
2004-12-20 17:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-20 22:48 ` Pjotr Kourzanov
2004-12-21 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-21 2:06 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-21 12:51 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2004-12-21 17:24 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 17:16 ` Al Hooton
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