In article <pine.neb.4.64.1012181604050.27...@quicky.whooppee.com>, Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com> wrote: >Is there some reason why there is a discrepancy in the definition of >ioctl()? > >From man page ioctl(2) > > SYNOPSIS > #include <sys/ioctl.h> > > int > ioctl(int d, unsigned long request, void *argp); > > >Yet, from sys/ioctl.h we have > > __BEGIN_DECLS > int ioctl(int, unsigned long, ...); > __END_DECLS >
Most of our ioctl's take pointer arguments. Some streams ioctls though take int arguments (ioctl(fd, I_FLUSH, FLUSHR) for example) and using void * as the argument would not compile cleanly. I think that we should not have void * in the man page either. christos
