From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:23:17 -0400 Received: from sub.sonic.net ([208.201.224.8]:2395 "EHLO sub.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:23:01 -0400 X-envelope-info: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:23:15 -0700 From: Mike Castle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is there any interest in Dynamic API Message-ID: <20010823072315.A9288@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Richard J Moore wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alexander Viro : > > > 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?) mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc