Hello Peter, On 11/16/2015 10:39 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > Thankfully, TIOCTTYGSTRUCT was removed in v2.5.67 by: > > commit b3506a09d15dc5aee6d4bb88d759b157016e1864 > Author: Andries E. Brouwer <andries.brouwer@xxxxxx> > Date: Tue Apr 1 04:42:46 2003 -0800 > > [PATCH] kill TIOCTTYGSTRUCT > > Only used for (dubious) debugging purposes, and exposes > internal kernel state. > > [The git SHA is from Thomas Gleixner's history tree at > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git] Thanks for the report/patch. Man-pages tends to take a conservative approach about discarding stuff though, since people reading man pages also need to know about past behavior. Therefore, I instead just added a note that this ioctl() disappeared in Linux 2.5.67: "This command was removed in Linux 2.5.67." Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man4/tty_ioctl.4 | 8 -------- > 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man4/tty_ioctl.4 b/man4/tty_ioctl.4 > index 53645d8..c3bee35 100644 > --- a/man4/tty_ioctl.4 > +++ b/man4/tty_ioctl.4 > @@ -471,14 +471,6 @@ For the > .B TIOCLINUX > ioctl, see > .BR console_ioctl (4). > -.SS Kernel debugging > -.B "#include <linux/tty.h>" > -.TP > -.BI "TIOCTTYGSTRUCT struct tty_struct *" argp > -Get the > -.I tty_struct > -corresponding to > -.IR fd . > .\" > .\" .SS Serial info > .\" .BR "#include <linux/serial.h>" > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
