Re: Missing ioctl descriptions: TIOCMIWAIT, TIOCGICOUNT

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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Andreas Heiduk
> <asheiduk@...> wrote:
> > my Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) distribution uses manpages-3.23-1. But neither
> > there nor in the browsable manpages here
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/tty_ioctl.4.html
> > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/ioctl_list.2.html
> >
> > there is a description for the ioctls TIOCMIWAIT and TIOCGICOUNT
> >
> > Could you please add them to the pages ioctl_list and tty_ioctl ?
> 
> Andreas,
> 
> Sorry -- I don't know the purpose of these two ioctl()s. If you have
> some text to propose, I could take it.

A patch[1] for these descriptions has been submitted by Frédéric Maria back
in '09, but left unhandled. The patch looks good to me. Do you think you can
apply it?

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/770

Cheers,
-- 
Stephane

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