Exactly? The alternative is ioctl whereas Plan 9 does everything over serialized streams to files. The serialized streams make it easier to think of these ioct

Exactly? The alternative is ioctl whereas Plan 9 does everything over serialized streams to files. The serialized streams make it easier to think of these ioctl-alikes as something you can easily access over a network (9p). And that’s how resource sharing is done in plan 9.