Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The FreeBSD [1], OpenBSD [2], and Solaris 10 [3] documentations specify the third argument of ioctl() as either an int or a pointer.
Passing a 64-bit long instead of a 32-bit int on big-endian platform can cause incorrect interpretation of an argument. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ioctl&sektion=2 [2] http://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2 [3] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5167/ioctl-2.html ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30665> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com