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Date:      Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:25:23 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/procfs procfs_ioctl.c src/sys/kern sys_generic.c
Message-ID:  <20050630072523.GA57564@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200506300019.j5U0J9TJ054902@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200506300019.j5U0J9TJ054902@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:19:08AM +0000, Peter Wemm wrote:
>   Conditionally weaken sys_generic.c rev 1.136 to allow certain dubious
>   ioctl numbers in backwards compatability mode.  eg: an IOC_IN ioctl with
>   a size of zero.  Traditionally this was what you did before IOC_VOID
>   existed, and we had some established users of this in the tree, namely
>   procfs.  Certain 3rd party drivers with binary userland components also
>   have this too.

I think this might fix this PR?

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/78664

David.



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