GEOM is too verbose
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at portaone.com
Wed Aug 4 03:27:45 PDT 2004
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:22:27PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote this message on Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 20:15 +0300:
> > >>It is python program, so that ioctl() is out of question. Usage of
> > >
> > >
> > >Hm python has ioctl support, where is the problem?
> >
> > Really? Anyway, I doubt that name of this ioctl is the same on the
> > different unices, so that binary search is still the best from the
> > portability POV.
>
> fcntl.ioctl... it might take some hand expansion of the ioctl macros
> to get it though... the old pytoh that would generate these couldn't
> handle FreeBSD's ioctl defines (but this was back in the early 4.x
> days)... You could always write a simple C program to get the value
> necessary..
Heh, but I have other means to spend my spare time. Rewriting perfectly
working code for perfection sake is not one of them.
-Maxim
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