Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 03:18:07 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code |
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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Al, if you really want to kill ioctl(2), then perhaps you should > implement a transaction(2) syscall. Something like: > int transaction (int fd, void *rbuf, size_t rlen, > void *wbuf, size_t wlen); > > Of course, there wouldn't be any practical gain, since we already have > ioctl(2). Any gain would be aesthetic.
I can tell you haven't had to write any 32-bit ioctl emulation code for a 64-bit kernel recently.
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