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New tools proposal: ioctlname and ioctldecode
I propose to add two new tools:
- ioctlname
- ioctldecode
Both of them are a special mode embedded into kdump(1).
From time to time there is need to decode IOCTL codes and there is no
(as far as I am aware) easy tool to do so.
ioctlname is already invented and it calls the internal function
ioctldecode().
commit f551b480cd03a35cec2a4927270c00cfaa508a27
Author: christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Mon Apr 13 14:39:23 2009 +0000
Allow kdump to be used as an ioctl decoder if invoked as ioctlname.
Today the internal/hidden program ioctlname produces something like:
"_IOW('W',0x2,0x10)".
I propose to rename this program to ioctldecode and change ioctlname to
print a descriptive operation name as received by the ioctlname() function.
$ ioctldecode 2148554498
_IOW('W',0x2,0x10)
$ ioctlname 2148554498
WSKBDIO_COMPLEXBELL
I propose to install both programs and add appropriate man-pages.
A functional patch is here:
http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00245-kdump-ioctlname.2.txt
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