Re: fcntl(2) and other file systems like XFS

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 11:23:20 EST

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From: Jim Mostek <mostek@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:34:13 -0600 (CST)

I don't think ioctl(2) should be used for regular files.

>From man ioctl(2) on Linux.

Don't trust the man page :-) Look at fs/ext2/ioctl.c instead.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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