Non-POSIX compliant portions of FreeBSD

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Fri Apr 23 15:27:30 UTC 2010


<<On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:23:42 -0700, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> said:

>     Continuing on the fun... ioctl (by manpage alone) isn't even close
> to being POSIX standard. Here are the differences I spotted at least
> [in the ERRORS section]:

You should ignore everything POSIX says about ioctl(); it is marked
"OB XSR" and therefore is not relevant to FreeBSD.

-GAWollman



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