On 03/28/2010 01:31 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Aren't ioctls a lot simpler?
Multiplexing multiple functions on write()s is just ioctls done uglier.
I don't have an opinion here.
Writes do have an advantage that strace can show the buffer
content without being patched.
ioctls encode the buffer size into the ioctl number, so in theory strace
doesn't need to be taught about an ioctl to show its buffer.
Further, something along the lines proposed above means that
we do not need to depend in a system header to get
the functionality.
Yes, point users at the code and let them figure out how to do stuff.
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