Re: New tools proposal: ioctlname and ioctldecode

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> We should maintain a contract that all new ioctl operations are
> system wide unique.

That is, unfortunately, unenforceable in the presence of a user base
that writes and shares code.  If I #define IOCNEWTHING _IO('?',7) and
someone else #defines IOCOTHERTHING _IO('?',7), there really isn't any
way to prevent that, nor to prevent them from conflicting when - and
eventually it will happen - someone wants to run a system with both new
thing and other thing.

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