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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:27:42 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
To:        Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM is too verbose
Message-ID:  <20040804102742.GC55271@www.portaone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040803212227.GW991@funkthat.com>
References:  <62768.1091287144@critter.freebsd.dk> <410BBB74.9010804@portaone.com> <864qnoyv06.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> <410BD3BC.9090704@portaone.com> <20040803212227.GW991@funkthat.com>

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On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:22:27PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote this message on Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 20:15 +0300:
> > >>It is python program, so that ioctl() is out of question. Usage of
> > >
> > >
> > >Hm python has ioctl support, where is the problem?
> > 
> > Really? Anyway, I doubt that name of this ioctl is the same on the 
> > different unices, so that binary search is still the best from the 
> > portability POV.
> 
> fcntl.ioctl...  it might take some hand expansion of the ioctl macros
> to get it though...  the old pytoh that would generate these couldn't
> handle FreeBSD's ioctl defines (but this was back in the early 4.x
> days)...  You could always write a simple C program to get the value
> necessary..

Heh, but I have other means to spend my spare time. Rewriting perfectly
working code for perfection sake is not one of them.

-Maxim

> 
> -- 
>   John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579
> 
>      "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
> 
> 



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