Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sun, 20 May 2001 10:31:13 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 20 May 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:

> That's why I proposed using multi-stream files. With a syscall like
>
> fd2 = open_substream(fd, "somename")

You also have "streams" thay are related to many device nodes at once. Sorry.

> you could have several control streams and also be prepared if you want to
> support multi-stream filesystems like NTFS in the future...

Let's _not_ bring that into this thread, OK?

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