Definition of IOCTL. Meaning of IOCTL. Synonyms of IOCTL

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Definition of IOCTL

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Meaning of IOCTL from wikipedia

- In computing, ioctl (an abbreviation of input/output control) is a system call for device-specific input/output operations and other operations which...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- with an ioctl interface may also include: /dev/pf – allows userland processes to control PF through an ioctl interface. /dev/bio – provides ioctl access...
- 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...
- Block (CDB) messages to SCSI devices. The interfaces are IOCTL_SCSI_P****_THROUGH and IOCTL_SCSI_P****_THROUGH_DIRECT. Applications can build a p****-through...
- (ext4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, FAT32, and many more). Configurable I/O schedulers, ioctl(2) syscall that mani****tes the underlying device parameters of special...
- 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...