Re: Is libusb dead?

Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:08:48 +0200, Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 17:54 schrieb Mike Panetta:
> > Just out of curiosity, why do we want to get rid of ioctl calls? 

> For a number of reasons.
> - we got burned on 32/64 issues

That's actually a reason to support ioctls. You get burned much worse
on 32/64 when doing read(2), because no translation or adaptation is
possible.

> - no easy support for non blocking IO
> - no easy support for AIO

That's the main thing (unless we play with mmap+ioctl for AIO imple-
mentation like V4L did).

-- Pete

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