I wrote ioctl tool exactly for this purpose: https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/ioctl. Currently, it is not possible to pass multiple argument to ioctl call. Have you an example where it would be usefull? If you want to call ioctl(open(“/dev/console”), 30, 1);, you can run: ioctl /dev/console 30 -v 1 However, for most ioctl, you want to allocate a … Read more
Most likely it means that the open didn’t fail. When Perl opens a file, it checks whether or not the file is a TTY (so that it can answer the -T $fh filetest operator) by issuing the TCGETS ioctl against it. If the file is a regular file and not a tty, the ioctl fails … Read more
The ioctl function is useful for implementing a device driver to set the configuration on the device. e.g. a printer that has configuration options to check and set the font family, font size etc. ioctl could be used to get the current font as well as set the font to a new one. A user … Read more