Subject: Re: allocation of ioctl "letters"
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/11/1999 11:20:16
[ On Mon, January 11, 1999 at 08:54:24 (GMT), Christos Zoulas wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: allocation of ioctl "letters"
>
> In article <199901102316.SAA16498@venus.solidum.com> mcr@solidum.com (Michael Richardson) writes:
> >
> >  Is there some central list of what letters are free for _IOW/_IOR?
> 
> Don't think so, but we should make one and put it in the manual pages.

Does it matter?  So far as I've ever known there can be no clash unless
a program opens the wrong device file.  It's just a "safety" check.

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