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 ...
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 ...
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 ...