Linux Standard Base PDA Specification 3.0RC1 | ||
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The ioctl() function shall manipulate the underlying device parameters of special files. fildes shall be an open file descriptor referring to a special file. The ioctl() function shall take three parameters; the type and value of the third parameter is dependent on the device and request.
Conforming LSB applications shall not call ioctl() except in situations explicitly stated in this specification.
On success, 0 is returned.
An ioctl() may use the return value as an
output parameter and return a non-negative value on success.
On error, -1 is returned and
the global variable errno
is set appropriately.
It should be noted that ISO POSIX (2003) contains an interface named ioctl(). The LSB only defines behavior when fildes refers to a socket (see sockio) or terminal device (see ttyio), while ISO POSIX (2003) only defines behavior when fildes refers to a STREAMS device. An implementation may support both behaviors; the LSB does not require any STREAMS support.
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