Console IOCTLs can be very useful and powerful. These are the IOCTls that involve the console. They are the user interface to manipulation of the console. I am going to go over these console IOCTLs ...

From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Extend the core device-mapper infrastructure to accept arbitrary ioctls on a mapped device provided that it has exactly one target and it is capable of supporting ...

In the first part of this column (LJ, August 2002) we covered the basics of the tty layer and how to create a minimal tty driver. Now we move on and cover more of the tty layer, trying to explain some ...

The ioctl() system call includes a general "command" argument which specifies which operation the calling program wishes to perform. The Linux kernel has long had a mechanism for defining these ...