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authorjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-06 08:50:49 +0000
committerjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1998-09-06 08:50:49 +0000
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Use a varargs style prototype in the manual page, with accompanying
explanation in the text.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/ioctl.215
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2
index a1d5f79..c22bb5b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/ioctl.h>
.Ft int
-.Fn ioctl "int d" "unsigned long request" "char *argp"
+.Fn ioctl "int d" "unsigned long request" "..."
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn ioctl
@@ -54,6 +54,19 @@ The argument
.Fa d
must be an open file descriptor.
.Pp
+The third argument to
+.Nm
+is traditionally named
+.Ar "char *argp" .
+Most uses of
+.Nm
+in
+.Fx 3.0
+however, require the third argument to be a
+.Ar caddr_t
+or an
+.Ar int .
+.Pp
An ioctl
.Fa request
has encoded in it whether the argument is an
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