managing comport settings in linux

Not a good idea; the design philosophy of Pike is that Pike-level code should never be able to cause memory corruption at C-level.

With ioctls there's no way to know what data a specific ioctl wants without reading the documentation for that specific ioctl for that specific OS. ioctls and fcntls are a way for device handlers to hook in APIs that aren't standard across all filedescriptors.

/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)

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2004-08-17 13:32: Subject: managing comport settings in linux

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What would be nice, is a way to define ioctl methods in Pike. Perhaps something like

object i = Stdio.IOCTL(4242 /* request_id */ ); i->add_int_parameter(); i->add_string_parameter(); i->set_return_type(STRING);

string ret = i(fd, 1, "somestring");

That ought to be possible, or..?

/ Marcus Agehall (PacketFront)