Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Problem with ioctl command TCGETS | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:22:03 +0100 |
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> The set-get is supposed to be used for queries, too? The size of value is > only used for the get case to describe the buffer length in that case? > because otherwise the set-get case may require a short value in and a large > answer structure out.
You misunderstand the motivation. This is to get/set small compact parameters, not huge structures or big data. Think get/setsockopt().
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