Alexander Viro writes:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Have a look at the MTRR driver: arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c
> >
> > We don't need another flag to open(2). Just make read(2) provide
> > human-readable data, and ioctl(2) computer-readable data.
>
> Richard, it's an _absolute_ BS. Sorry, but ioctl() on procfs
> is ridiculous - the whole thing was created to avoid that sort of
> interfaces. Introducing new ioctls is the last resort - remember,
> this syscall was invented as an explicit barf-bag. And was abandoned
> by authors, BTW. Now, we can't afford getting rid of all ioctls, but
> we can avoid adding more, erm, matter into that barf-bag.
If not ioctl(2), then what other interface would you propose for
binary data? I don't accept the argument that everything should be in
ASCII format.
Regards,
Richard....
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