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From: shz@packard.UUCP (S. Zirin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: let's get rid of ioctl()
Summary: Let's not.
Message-ID: <689@packard.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 20:25:25 GMT
References: <1508@fireball.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: shz@packard.UUCP
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <1508@fireball.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Wouldn't it be nice if ioctl() calls were effective only within the
>process which executed them, and in its children (for initialization),
>but NOT in its parent?

Ioctl()'s are used for a whole lot more than just setting terminal modes.
Perhaps Maarten meant to say termio(7) modes.

Seth Zirin
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