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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ioctl args
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Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 11:59:50 EST
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In article <5362@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>If you want to roast Berkeley, how about roasting them for deciding
>that those (int)s should be (int *)s

Which (int)s?  (I am dating myself now: I go back only to 4.1BSD.)

>and that the size of the data structures should be encoded into
>an itty-bitty field within the ioctl code.

Who said that?  That it *is now* does not mean that it *should be*:
ioctl() could be a macro that calls the `real' ioctl function.
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