On Tue, 23.09.08 08:09, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:39:24AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > Everyone hates ioctl()s. The kernel people do. The userspace people > > Not true. Ioctl has a very important place in things. Sure they have. But its an awkward interface. Everything multiplexed via a single syscall. Unreadable/unpronouncable names. No type-safety, not even size-safety. No proper signatures. ioctl()s are awful. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
