Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:51:28 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 3dfx driver and ioctl return value issues. Message-ID: <XFMail.990428125128.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199904280309.LAA09496@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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On 28-Apr-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > returns *non-negative* numbers to indicate success. This means that an ioctl > can return information such as the number of 3dfx card in a system as a > value, rather than in the variable that the third argument of ioctl points > This would not normally be a problem, except for the fact that the Linux > library depends on this perverse behaivior, making testing rather difficult. Why oh why? Thats pretty vile :( > There's another way out - I obtain the Glide source, alter it to pass > to variables in ioctl calls rather than relying on the return value of the > ioctl call. For those people who wish to use the driver in the Linux > "realtime > 3d simulations" aka glquake, we recompile it after the alterations with the > Linux dev kit. Any chance of getting the Linux porter to fix this (really really) bad behaviour? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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