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Whenever I run into a situation where ioctl is necessary it makes me think the authors either hadn’t thought their design through enough, or couldn’t convince e
by jonhohle 3y ago
Whenever I run into a situation where ioctl is necessary it makes me think the authors either hadn’t thought their design through enough, or couldn’t convince enough people that a sys call was justified. What an abhorant interface.
- alexvitkov 3y agoNon-blocking IO? Surely that doesn't have enough value to justify a decent API, just throw in an ioctl, people will figure it out.