Bug 21499 - ioctl problems
Summary: ioctl problems
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-29 21:14 UTC by Will Newton
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-12-11 04:51:32 UTC
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Description Will Newton 2000-11-29 21:14:18 UTC 
Using glibc-2.2-5 on i386 with kernel 2.4.0-test11.

ioctl seems to always (?) return EINVAL. Many apps do this, including
tunelp.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-29 21:19:18 UTC 
ioctl for *everything*?
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2000-11-29 21:22:47 UTC 
Impossible, your system would not even boot otherwise.
Can you give us some details? Which ioctl, under which conditions,
strace output.
Comment 3 Will Newton 2000-11-30 00:15:59 UTC 
Sorry, I was not too clear. Here are examples:

tunelp:
[root@dogfox sys-utils]# ./tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 0
OP: 605, VAL: 0
tunelp: ioctl: Invalid argument
/dev/lp0 using IRQ 7

Valid args? I think so.

gqcam:

[root@dogfox gqcam-0.9]# ./gqcam -v /dev/v4l/video0 
ioctl (VIDIOCSPICT): Invalid argument
ioctl (VIDIOCSWIN): Invalid argument
ioctl (VIDIOCSPICT): Invalid argument
ioctl (VIDIOCSWIN): Invalid argument
etc.

I am currently recompiling glibc-2.2-5 to see if it makes any difference.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-30 05:39:23 UTC 
Are you using devfs?
Comment 5 Will Newton 2000-12-11 04:51:29 UTC 
Yes, I am using devfs.
Latest version of devfsd AFAIK.
Comment 6 Jakub Jelinek 2000-12-19 11:10:20 UTC 
So it is a kernel problem then (actually devfs problem; and also not a
problem in a kernel we have shipped). So I'd suggest to work this out
with devfs author (Richard Gooch).
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