On Tue, 23.09.08 08:09, Alan Cox (alan(a)redhat.com) wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:39:24AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Everyone hates ioctl()s. The kernel people do. The userspace people
Not true. Ioctl has a very important place in things.
Sure they have. But its an awkward interface. Everything multiplexed
via a single syscall. Unreadable/unpronouncable names. No type-safety,
not even size-safety. No proper signatures. ioctl()s are awful.
Lennart
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