Subject: Re: wrap up of pipe(2)
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/03/2001 17:05:58
>For ioctl, read, write, etc., I'd be inclined to include text of the
>form:
>
>"Other errors may be generated depending on the exact type of file
>descriptor in use; see the manual page for the descriptor's
>filesystem, device driver, protocol, or address family for additional
>information on the meaning of specific errors".
...except that a lot of this stuff isn't really documented anywhere
except insofar as use in code. addressing that, at least for the
ioctl stuff, is something that's part of phase 2 of my insane project.
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