Re: ioctl conflicts

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@bytesex.org)
30 Aug 2001 08:16:22 GMT

Manik Raina wrote:
> I was grep-ing on a 2.4 source tree when i found the
> following :
>
> ./include/linux/videodev.h:#define VIDIOCGCAP
> _IOR('v',1,struct video_capability)
> ./include/linux/ext2_fs.h:#define EXT2_IOC_GETVERSION _IOR('v',1,
> long)

The size of the argument has a different size, so they end up with
different magic numbers because of that.

Gerd

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