> names) for next to any object in the kernel. ioctl() is, excuse me, a
> barf-bag for all irregular stuff. So yes, both classes have irregular
ioctl is indeed the barfbag - but its a stroke of genius by people who realised
that some things could never cleanly be expressed in the basic API concepts
and that a small clean API with a "weird()" entry point for the other stuff
is long term better than a large bloated API with no ioctl that forces
you to understand a large interface to program to a small one. Try NT
programming
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