Pty ports and TIOCUCNTL mode

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Wed Apr 27 13:05:25 AEST 1988


In article <1019 at sdcc7.ucsd.EDU> muller at sdcc7.ucsd.EDU (Keith Muller) writes:
>Several vendors support TIOCUCNTL, but do not define UIOCMD in ioctl.h which
>is why #define JBOOT _IO(u, 1) etc was suggested over UIOCMD, there is no
>"rightness" here.

Actually, there is; _IO is an internal macro and its first argument
might change, so UIOCCMD is right and _IO is wrong.

(If you do not believe _IO's first argument might change, think again.
It already did!  UIOCCMD is now defined as _IO('u', n).)
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