On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:44:42PM +0300, Shay Deloya wrote: > On asm-mips/ioctl.h , there is a mask on the size transfered to the ioctl , > e.g. : when implementing an ioctl that handles IO , the max size the > supported in mips is 0xff as defined in the code below: ... > Does anyone know the reason for this masking and limit ? Breakage. This has recently been fixed at least in cvs; update your kernel. -- Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org> http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss put in an honest day's work." -- The fortune file