On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > Added pioctl op and PIO_pioctl API call. General purpose op for IO manipulation > in tradition of UNIX ioctl call. > > This will be the interface for doing all sorts of IO layer stuff such as > buffering, blocking, async, etc. At least until someone has a better > way to do it.
I think it's time to start thinking about it. (And I think we need a new name, but that's because I've always hated 'ioctl' :) Dan