Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 10:31:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Num |
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On Sun, 20 May 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:
> That's why I proposed using multi-stream files. With a syscall like > > fd2 = open_substream(fd, "somename")
You also have "streams" thay are related to many device nodes at once. Sorry.
> you could have several control streams and also be prepared if you want to > support multi-stream filesystems like NTFS in the future...
Let's _not_ bring that into this thread, OK?
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