managing comport settings in linux - Pike-devel

17 Aug 2004

      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

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)