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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: 4.2BSD: <sys/mtio.h>
Message-ID: <788@hao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 14:11:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 14:11:10 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jan-84 00:55:14 EST
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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  We have just converted to 4.2BSD, and I am having some trouble with
the mag tape ioctl(2) calls. In the include file <sys/mtio.h>, the old
MTIOCTOP is defined as "_IOW(m,1,struct mtop)". When I try to recompile
some libraries I had to do mag tape operations, the variable "m" is
giving a compiler error, since it was not declared in my old software,
and was not needed there. My problem is, I can't find *any* documentation
or source for _IOW, so I have no idea what "m" is or how to fix my program
to work (it used to run under 4.1aBSD). Does anyone out there know where to
find source and/or documentation for _IOW under 4.2, and/or know what the
function of the mysterious "m" is? Thanks for any help. 

		     GREG
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