RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Khachaturov, Vassilii
2001-05-16T15:12:00Z

Well, even if you spank the future violators, what about the current
overlaps?
E.g., the CD-ROM ioctls are overlapping
with the STREAMS ioctls (the latter ones used by LiS and honored by glibc).

V.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@transmeta.com]
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > 1. is of course a problem in itself. Someone who creates
> overlapping
> > > ioctls should be spanked, hard.
> >
> > No argument there. But there is no LANANA ioctl body
> >
>
> I though Michael Chastain was maintaining this set. No, we
> haven't made
> it an official LANANA function, mostly because I didn't want to push.