• In computing, ioctl (an abbreviation of input/output control) is a system call for device-specific input/output operations and other operations which...
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    code is now used to indicate that an invalid ioctl (input/output control) number was specified in an ioctl system call. This error originated in early...
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  • AF_NETLINKsocket family. Netlink is designed to be a more flexible successor to ioctl; RFC 3549 describes the protocol in detail. Netlink was created by Alexey...
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    POSIX/SUS-compatible. Kernel mode Linux kernel stat, splice, dup, read, open, ioctl, write, mmap, close, exit, etc. (about 380 system calls) The Linux kernel...
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  • to talk to the GPU must open this file and use ioctl calls to communicate with DRM. Different ioctls correspond to different functions of the DRM API...
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  • with an ioctl interface may also include: /dev/pf – allows userland processes to control PF through an ioctl interface. /dev/bio – provides ioctl access...
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  • is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to the software in a Unix kernel...
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  • Block (CDB) messages to SCSI devices. The interfaces are IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH and IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT. Applications can build a pass-through...
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    (ext4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, FAT32, and many more). Configurable I/O schedulers, ioctl(2) syscall that manipulates the underlying device parameters of special...
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    at the expense of occasionally requiring additional mechanisms such as ioctl and mode flags to access features of the hardware that did not fit the simple...
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    from the original on October 1, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2021. "DOS 3.1+ - IOCTL — Check If Handle Is Remote". Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. Archived from...
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  • POSIX/SUS-compatible. Kernel mode Linux kernel stat, splice, dup, read, open, ioctl, write, mmap, close, exit, etc. (about 380 system calls) The Linux kernel...
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    strace 5.12). strace supports decoding of arguments of some classes of ioctl commands, such as BTRFS_*, V4L2_*, DM_*, NSFS_*, MEM*, EVIO*, KVM_*, and...
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  • by the chattr command. Programs can examine and alter attributes using ioctl operations. Many Linux file systems support only a limited set of attributes...
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    easily be implemented using the Windows API, such as fork(), mmap() and ioctl(). Applications written using a cross-platform library that has itself been...
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    formatted in HFS+. Third-party bootloaders needed to be "blessed" by a special ioctl command before becoming bootable by the firmware, a relic of the System...
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    usually become reduced to a serial line or its emulation, possibly with few ioctl()s as an out-of-band channel in such cases as Telnet and Secure Shell. This...
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    hardware monitoring, whereas NetBSD uses the ioctl system call for its sysmon envsys counterpart. Both sysctl and ioctl are the two system calls which can be...
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    more complex operations, the programs can use console and terminal special ioctl system calls. One can compare devices using the patterns vcs ("virtual console...
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    <net/if.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <linux/can.h> #include <linux/can/raw.h> int main(void) { int...
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  • shutdown() (shuts down one or both halves of a full duplex connection) ioctl() (a large collection of miscellaneous operations on a single file descriptor...
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    ncurses. For more complex operations, the programs can use terminal specific ioctl system calls. For an application, the simplest way to use a terminal is...
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    and accesses all objects as a file would be accessed (i.e., there is no ioctl or mmap): networking, graphics, debugging, authentication, capabilities...
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  • believed to be a denial of service vulnerability. With the use of the TIOCSTI ioctl, it was possible for authenticated users to inject characters into other...
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  • is performed with the help of envstat utility through proplib(3) through ioctl(2) against the /dev/sysmon pseudo-device file, the powerd power management...
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  • querying and modifying all of these modes and control characters was the ioctl() system call. (This replaced the stty() and gtty() system calls of Sixth...
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  • association and disassociation of a file with a loop device is performed with the ioctl system call on a loop device. Device file system Network block device cloop...
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    damage requests from its clients and then re-composites the screen. The compositor can then directly issue an ioctl to schedule a pageflip with KMS....
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    by writing a zero character to /dev/watchdog or by calling a KEEPALIVE ioctl. The device driver, which serves to abstract the watchdog hardware from...
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  • exists for seeking, nor for performing "I/O control" functions such as ioctl() in Unix. Indeed, the KERNAL proves much closer to the Plan-9 philosophy...
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