On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Christos Zoulas wrote:
In article <pine.neb.4.64.1012181604050.27...@quicky.whooppee.com>,
Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com> 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.
Should the man page be updated to match reality?
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