ioctl - 控制设备

内容简介

#include <sys/ioctl.h>

int ioctl(int d, int request, ...);

描述

The ioctl() function manipulates the underlying device parameters of special files. In particular, many operating characteristics of character special files (e.g. terminals) may be controlled with ioctl() requests. The argument d must be an open file descriptor.

The second argument is a device-dependent request code. The third argument is an untyped yiibaier to memory. It’s traditionally char *argp (from the days before void *was valid C), and will be so named for this discussion.

An ioctl() request has encoded in it whether the argument is an in parameter or outparameter, and the size of the argument argp in bytes. Macros and defines used in specifying an ioctl() request are located in the file <sys/ioctl.h>.

返回值

Usually, on success zero is returned. A few ioctl() requests use the return value as an output parameter and return a nonnegative value on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

错误

标签	描述
EBADF	d is not a valid descriptor.
EFAULT	argp references an inaccessible memory area.
EINVAL	Request or argp is not valid.
ENOTTY	d is not associated with a character special device.
ENOTTY	The specified request does not apply to the kind of object that the descriptor d references.

注意

In order to use this call, one needs an open file descriptor. Often the open(2) call has unwanted side effects, that can be avoided under Linux by giving it the O_NONBLOCK flag.

遵循于

No single standard. Arguments, returns, and semantics of ioctl(2) vary according to the device driver in question (the call is used as a catch-all for operations that don’t cleanly fit the Unix stream I/O model). See ioctl_list(2) for a list of many of the known ioctl() calls. The ioctl() function call appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.

另请参阅

• execve (2)

• fcntl (2)

• ioctl_list (2)

• open (2)