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Subject: iocntl naming
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 16:30:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 16:30:24 1986
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From gwyn@BRL.ARPA Sat May 17 13:55:51 1986
Message-Id: <8605171855.AA17921@sally.UTEXAS.EDU>
Date:     Sat, 17 May 86 14:45:31 EDT
From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL.ARPA>
To: std-unix@SALLY.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject:  iocntl naming

The name should be "iocontrol" or simply "control".
Why abbrvt whn u dnt hv to?

I see no reason to replace
	int ioctl( int fd, int request, funnyarg )
where "funnyarg" has type (int) or (struct something *)
by anything else, though.

Volume-Number: Volume 6, Number 19