re: ioctl(2) vs sys/ioctl.h

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Sun 19 Dec 2010 at 19:32:49 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > I suspect the only form that will work is soemthing like:
> > 
> > int ioctl(int, unsigned long, void *);
> > #define ioctl(fd, cmd, arg) ioctl(fd, cmd, (void *)(intptr_t)(arg))
> 
> Easier: the aforementioned constant FLUSHR (and all others) can be
> defined as ((void *)1234) (for appropriate values of 1234).
> 
> However, we don't have streams, so no streams ioctls, which makes the
> point moot, at least for the given example.

this changes the ABI on LP64BE if i am not mistaken.


.mrg.