fcntl

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Mar13.125755.9720 at granite.cr.bull.com> freedman at granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman) writes:
>  I know what the entry point(s) to ioctl are (I've seen
>enough drivers but where are the fcntl entry points?
>There is sort of an overlap there. Will a fcntl cause
>a call to dev_ioctl?

Well, it's not supposed to -- fcntl() was introduced specifically
to play with the file table entries, which is something the device
driver is not supposed to know (or care) about.