* Roger Hardiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 05:37] wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm porting the some linux telephony API drivers over
> to FreeBSD.
>
> But the author of the linux driver used the 'hack' of
> returning values from the ioctls as the error result.
>
> eg volume = ioctl (fd, IXJ_GET_VOLUME)
>
> instead of using
> error = ioctl (fd, IXJ_GET_VOLUME, &volume);
>
>
> Naturally I want to keep the API the same on FreeBSD
> so existing apps will compile without change.
> But right now it looks like I cannot do this.
>
> Is there anything I can do in the FreeBSD driver
> or in existing source to help, without imposing
> a new 'BSD' API.
I just woke up.... er, try this:
p->p_retval[0] = your_return_value;
in your ioctl code... or are you saying that the ioctl code
spams over it?
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