Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Right now, they are less than useful to my needs, because I actually 
> *need* to encode sizes, and the sizes that I need to encode are > 255 
> bytes.   Frankly, the current definitions are dangerous, because I 

Why do you need to do this?  Why is it something that has not bothered
anyone else in the past 20+ years?

> But if the issue is to contentious, then I will abandon any effort to 
> clean this up, and just use my own private definitions, and resign 
> myself to the idea that truss and such tools will just be stuck when it 
> comes to decoding my ioctls.

That's not true.  I pointed out earlier that you can add your own
decoder into truss, and do anything you like with ioctl arguments.
Just add a new case to show_ioctl(), and use Pread to grab the data
you want.

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