On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:21:07 -0300 Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> wrote:
> In most cases, unless we are talking about a low-level disk utility, if > userland code is trying to find out the size of a raw block device then it > seems like a design error. There are many valid reason why applications may want to work with block or raw devices directly. A design error is to place artificial barriers which stop people from doing useful things with those devices. The whole idea of Unix was "everything is a file" and the sooner people get rid of magic ioctls the better.
