Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 19 May 2001 15:02:47 +0100 (BST)

> ioctls are evil, period. At least with these names you can use normal
> scripting and don't need any special tools. Every ioctl means a binary
> that has no business to exist.

That is not IMHO a rational argument. It isn't my fault that your shell does
not support ioctls usefully. If you used perl as your login shell you would
have no problem there.

Alan

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