Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:51:33 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Current List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FIO* doc added to tty.4 (review) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104172241100.9398-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200104170209.WAA02683@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:26:37 -0700, "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > > > I've been doing some tty related work and found the FIO* > > requests don't seem to be documented. > > > I've added some reasonable doc to tty.4 and put up the > > the diff and html forms: > > As the initial letter suggests, they are generic file ioctls and not > specific to the teletype driver. They should be described in the > ioctl(2) manual page. Most of them are best described by "deprecated; use the corresponding file [descriptor] operation in fcntl(2)". The main exceptions are: - FIONREAD: no other way to do this yet - FIODTYPE: no other way to do this yet - FIOGETLBA: not even a generic device ioctl; should never have been here Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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