Re: GEOM is too verbose

From: Maxim Sobolev (sobomax_at_portaone.com)
Date: 08/04/04

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To: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org

    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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    >
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