Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:51:05 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: ioctl assignment strategy? |
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:32:11AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Ioctls do have some serious problems that make them nice to avoid > [...]
5. ioctls don't have a reliable size information in the call, making them hard to forward over a network in a generic way, or even pass to another userspace process.
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