|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

ioctl() forever?

ioctl() forever?

Posted Jun 9, 2022 16:39 UTC (Thu) by karim (subscriber, #114)
In reply to: ioctl() forever? by mathstuf
Parent article: ioctl() forever?

Very good question. I can't say I thought it all the way through. Maybe another inspiration could be online help output from commands that print options when you provide "-h" ... i.e. just some free-form text to be printed on screen when invoked. It's a rough cut of an idea. Definitely requires some more forethought to be useful. But, personally, I'd love to have a way to ask about the ioctl()s available for any /dev/foo and even have a tool to invoke them from the command line if it makes sense.


The LWN site is currently under high scraper load, so comment display has been suppressed for anonymous users. If you are a human, you may read the comments by clicking the button below:

Note: you can avoid this step in the future by logging into your LWN account.


Copyright © 2026, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds