ioctl is so 2002. netlink sockets are all the rage now. - erik
On Thu Mar 30 13:59:35 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/30/06, Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, ioctl masks the direction of data motion, while read and > > write make it was explicit as can be. > > > > -rob > > > > It really does seem that ioctl is just a "kitchen sink" for operations > on resources in a filesystem that people didn't think could be > addressed as files at the time. > > The xattr stuff seems neat on the surface because you effectively get > a hierarchical namespace directly attached to your device file. Of > course, there's really nothing stopping us from doing that with > directories the Plan 9 way I suppose. > > In fact, I often wondered why the eia* stuff kind of differed in > structure from the sd* stuff. > > Any good reason not to do > eia0/ctl > eia0/data > eia0/status > > Dave
