From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 1 12:12:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B60F37B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E9F43E6A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manek@ecst.csuchico.edu) Received: from 209-239-196-119.oak.jps.net ([209.239.196.119] helo=rover) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17la9N-00028K-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 12:12:45 -0700 From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: Subject: ioctl man page Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:12:41 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is this intentional, or just an oversight? The third argument to ioctl is traditionally named char *argp. Most uses of ioctl in FreeBSD 3.0 however, require the third argument to be a caddr_t or an int. Should the 3.0 be updated, to 4.6, or just removed all together? Or perhaps rewritten to something like this "Most uses of ioctl since FreeBSD 3.0 require ....." Sameer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sameer R. Manek Email: manek@ghur.net "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." --Isadora Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message