ioctl() forever?
ioctl() forever?
Posted Jun 8, 2022 14:48 UTC (Wed) by rincebrain (subscriber, #69638)Parent article: ioctl() forever?
People might also use ioctl because they're developers on something out of tree, the existing syscalls and ioctls have artificial limitations, and LKML has been actively hostile to anyone suggesting anything happen or not to improve things for projects which are unlikely to ever be mainlinable.
So, since you can't easily add custom syscalls to everyone ever, ioctl it is.
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