Arjan van de Ven wrote:
privcmd returns a filehandle which is then used
for ioctls (misc char dev maybe?).
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
what is wrong with open() ?????
things that return fd's that aren't open() (or dup and socket) are just
evil. Esp if it's in proc or sysfs.
Nothing is wrong with open, but probably the sentense above is a bit too
short. If you call fd = open("/proc/xen/privcmd", ...) you'll get a
filehandle returned for the thingy (as usual) and then you'll use that
filehandle to call ioctl(fd, ...), so it's the usual unix way ...
cheers,
Gerd
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Gerd 'just married' Hoffmann <[email protected]>
I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.
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