On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:35:22 -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> more precisely, fcntl() operates on file *descriptors*; ioctl()
> operates on files.
[...]
> in short, I don't think having file-system-specific stuff in an
> interface that's intended to control file descriptors makes much
> sense.  we certainly shouldn't move further in that direction, and
> it would be good to eventually replace our existing use of that
> mechanism with something else instead, either ioctl() or possibly
> this fsctl() thing.

I totally agree.

SY, Uwe
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