On 11/14/2007 05:17 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
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> 
> But in general, for special files, I guess the response is usually
> some structured data (that is not visible at the syscall layer).
> So I don't see a big problem to have a similarly arbitrarily
> structured request.
> 
> 

IOW, an ioctl.
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