On Feb 8, 2008 2:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > see? total freedom in terms of how you interpret the values, which is > why ioctl() calls are actually deprecated these days -- they're just > too unstructured, and are being phased out in terms of /proc or sysfs > entries. but there's obviously a lot of them still in the kernel. >
They are being phased out? You mean they may not be supported in future kernel versions? And is the alternative to ioctl()s, reading/writing to special /proc or /sysfs entries? Is that faster/slower than ioctl()s, or just cleaner. Thanks for all your replies. -Mayank
