On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Dave McConnell wrote:

> Hi
> > userland code.  Clearly, I have missed something.... can anyone give
> > me a hint?  BTW yes, I _do_ have the ioctl call in the cdevsw entry, I
> > have verified it is there in cdevsw using ddb.
> Well that would have been my first question :-)
> 
> What "command" are you calling your ioctl with. Are you sure the 
> specific command is not being "handled" at a "higher level" (I 
> assume this can happen?) and not going through to your ioctl? Try 
> defining your own ioctl commands (see sys/filio.h for example of 
> defining your own...).

The "upper level" ones are:

FIONBIO, FIOASYNC, FIOSETOWN, and FIOGETOWN. For a FIFO, block, or char
device, everything else should go to a VOP_IOCTL on the vnode (see
vn_ioctl() in vfs_vnops.c). Socket stuff of course goes elsewhere. :-)

Take care,

Bill