Re: another little proposal
Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Mon, 18 Aug 97 11:45:03 +0200
|> Followup to: <x7u3gopdv1.fsf@sl-kb05.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
|> By author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
|> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
|>>
|>> Hi,
|>>
|>> Again for the libc, I need an ioctl option which allows me to query
|>> the mode of a descriptor which was used in open. I.e.,
|>>
|>> int fd, mode;
|>> fd = open ("foo", O_RDONLY);
|>> ioctl (fd, FIGMODE, &mode);
|>>
|>> would fill `mode' with O_RDONLY etc. This should be pretty easy to add.
|>> (If something like this is already available please educate me.)
|>>
Doesn't fcntl(F_GETFL) already do that?