Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
24 Jan 1999 14:58:27 +0100

Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> writes:
> - Figure out some way to drain the ioctl swamp. I won't mind if the
> existing thousand ioctls get frozen if there is some way to handle
> new ones, such as an 'nioctl' call that takes the length as the
> fourth parameter.
>
Other Unices use macros which encode the length into the ioctl number
(via _IO[RW] macros)...

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