Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:23:15 -0700 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: Is there any interest in Dynamic API |
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Richard J Moore wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>: > > > s/ioctl/read() and write()/, please. > > Why not ioctl?
You can script things with read/write. You have to write one off utilities for ioctl.
Think having to require specialized tools like stty, hdparm, setserial, and so on. (Historical question: Since IP sockets were originally /dev/* based, was ifconfig essentially a wrapper around ioctls?)
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