Ok - it's true that ioctl has a generic interface (hadn't remembered that). We can think of it as hundreds of functions, not just one. So wrapping ioctl "comple

Ok - it's true that ioctl has a generic interface (hadn't remembered that). We can think of it as hundreds of functions, not just one. So wrapping ioctl "completely" is correspondingly a lot of work. However the point was of course to make a safe-land layer which contains the needed functionality. The point was never to have a function "safeioctl" in the first place.