On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Melvin Smith wrote:
> Added pioctl op and PIO_pioctl API call. General purpose op for IO manipulation
> in tradition of UNIX ioctl call.
>
> This will be the interface for doing all sorts of IO layer stuff such as
> buffering, blocking, async, etc. At least until someone has a better
> way to do it.
I think it's time to start thinking about it. (And I think we need a new name, but that's because I've always hated 'ioctl' :)
:)
I also considered iocmd, ioattr and ioset.
IPop your favorite into the suggestion box...
-Melvin
