Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:20:13 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Device-mapper submission 6/7 |
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Anton Blanchard wrote: >>AFAIK Linus and Al Viro (and myself <g>) have always considered ioctls >>an ugly -ism that should have never made it into Unix. Over and above >>the Unix/VFS design problems with ioctl(2), ioctl(2) is a pain for >>people like David Miller who must maintain 32<->64 bit ioctl translation >>layers for their architecture. ia64 and x64-64 must do this too. Each >>ioctl you add is an additional headache for them. > > > And ppc64 :) Lately Dave, Andi and I seem to be spending too much time > bouncing fixes around for 32/64 bit ioctl and syscall translation code.
Tangent: everyone agrees a shared ioctl32 would be immensely useful, but noone has bothered ;-)
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