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From: Manik Raina <manik@cisco.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioctl conflicts
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:48 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B8E08B8.F4856A47@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010828145304Z.haba@pdc.kth.se> <3B8DEF9D.26F7544D@cisco.com> <slrn9ortim.352.kraxel@bytesex.org>


If the parameters were the same, we would have the
same number. Even though they go different places,
we would have the same number mapping into different
ioctls. that doesn't look too good.

> The size of the argument has a different size, so they end up with
> different magic numbers because of that.
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-30  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-28 12:53 Size of pointers in sys_call_table? Harald Barth
2001-08-28 13:26 ` Brian Gerst
2001-08-28 14:30   ` Harald Barth
2001-08-28 16:17   ` Alan Cox
2001-08-29  0:49     ` Keith Owens
2001-08-29 23:26     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-08-30  7:47 ` ioctl conflicts Manik Raina
2001-08-30  8:16   ` Gerd Knorr
2001-08-30  9:31     ` David S. Miller
2001-08-30  9:34     ` Manik Raina [this message]
2001-08-30  8:20   ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30  8:30     ` David S. Miller
2001-08-30  9:00       ` Andreas Schwab
2001-08-30  9:14       ` Alan Cox
2001-08-30  9:29         ` David S. Miller
2001-08-30  9:15     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-03  1:06     ` Wichert Akkerman

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