In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1012181604050.27150%quicky.whooppee.com@localhost>,
Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
Is there some reason why there is a discrepancy in the definition of
ioctl()?
From man page ioctl(2)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
int
ioctl(int d, unsigned long request, void *argp);
Yet, from sys/ioctl.h we have
__BEGIN_DECLS
int ioctl(int, unsigned long, ...);
__END_DECLS
Most of our ioctl's take pointer arguments. Some streams ioctls though
take int arguments (ioctl(fd, I_FLUSH, FLUSHR) for example) and using
void * as the argument would not compile cleanly. I think that we
should not have void * in the man page either.