Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:51:21 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199606270051.UAA18166@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960626160908.8317C-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:17:34 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: FSE, some questions


> I'm not sure this is such a good idea.  Under MS-DOS, `ioctl' means a
> totally different thing, so it might be a source of subtle bugs (if
> somebody tries to compile a program that comes from BC, say, and uses
> `ioctl').  I remember some discussion about this about a year ago.  Maybe
> its worthwhile to ask DJ. 

Heck, even under *Unix* ioctl is a mysterious function.

If someone comes up with an implementation that does what both naive
dos programmers and naive unix programmers expect, and doesn't violate
POSIX, I'll put it in libc.