Lots of apps do it - hdparm, mt-st, lilo
> The fix, I think, is to make the ioctl commands much more regular. That is
> probably true in general, and fixing that would hopefully fix the need for
> horrible code like the above.
Definitely. Some of it would remain but it becomes
if(ioctl(foo)==-EOPNOTSUPP)
bang_it_nby_hand()
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