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ioctl and friends
- To: libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- Subject: ioctl and friends
- From: Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:28:49 -0400
All right, I have a little problem...
The pre 2.1 glibc redeclares its own versions of just about all system
structs, and most porting headaches can be fixed with a few simple
header switches. But, the size and contents of struct termios have
changed - and on the powerpc, the changes mean that the size of the
struct has changed from what the kernel expects it to be. So any ioctl
based on termios fails - that's TCGETS and TCGETA. Do people think it
would be worthwhile to check for these ioctl()s specifically and
convert? As it is, it's a pain tracking down every use of ioctls based
on termios and converting to tcgetattr() when the program needs to
compile on multiple (very multiple) versions of linux; I know that it's
not hard, but it's certainly a nasty pitfall that I think could be
avoided without too much trouble.
Dan