On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:26:37 -0700, "John W. De Boskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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