RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Khachaturov, Vassilii]

Well, even if you spank the future violators, what about the current
overlaps?
E.g., the CD-ROM ioctls are overlapping
with the STREAMS ioctls (the latter ones used by LiS and honored by glibc).

V.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > 1. is of course a problem in itself.  Someone who creates 
> overlapping
> > > ioctls should be spanked, hard.
> > 
> > No argument there. But there is no LANANA ioctl body
> > 
> 
> I though Michael Chastain was maintaining this set.  No, we 
> haven't made
> it an official LANANA function, mostly because I didn't want to push.