> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:50:12 +0200
> From: Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net>
> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl>, tech@openbsd.org
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> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:39:01AM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> 
> > wrote:
> > >> From: Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com>
> > >> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 13:10:10 +0400
> > >>
> > >> Hello all.
> > >>
> > >> Looks like there is a typo in ioctl number...
> > >
> > > What makes you think this is a typo?
> > >
> > 
> > there are two ioctls with the same command number:
> > 
> > #define BIOCDISCIPLINE _IOWR('B', 40, struct bioc_discipline)
> > #define BIOCINSTALLBOOT _IOWR('B', 40, struct bioc_installboot)
> 
> Only if the two structs happen to have the same size they will clash.

It's still a bad idea to use the same command number.  I believe we
encode the size of the structure in there as a sanity check, not to
extend the ioctl "namespace".

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