Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

From: Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 22:18:07 EDT

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    On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:23PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
    > Al, if you really want to kill ioctl(2), then perhaps you should
    > implement a transaction(2) syscall. Something like:
    > int transaction (int fd, void *rbuf, size_t rlen,
    > void *wbuf, size_t wlen);
    >
    > Of course, there wouldn't be any practical gain, since we already have
    > ioctl(2). Any gain would be aesthetic.

    I can tell you haven't had to write any 32-bit ioctl emulation code for
    a 64-bit kernel recently. 

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