The "black magic" of ioctl

[Francesco Piraneo Giuliano <fpiraneo@gmail.com>]

Hi gentleman,

I've a nice question for you! :-)

In linux we have the ioctl function that allows to control or get
informations about an open device.

Questions:

- I have not clear if the ioctl is a function of POSIX compliant os'es
so it can be handled by ADA libflorist or is a linux-specific function
that we have to import in ADA with a PRAGMA IMPORT;

- In the case that ioctl is a standard POSIX function, I'm very glad
if someone can address me to the right function in libflorist... I've
not found anything similar.

Thank you very much for your answers.
Francesco

PS'es:

- I know it's an idiot question, for that reason I think that nobody
has difficulties to answer me! :-D

- Thank you very much to the guy that called "florist" a library for
interfacing ADA with POSIX compliant os'es!! So when I google about it
I get lot of flower's sellers called "Ada"... all around the world!

- Thank also to the guy that thought to call Ada language ... "Ada"!
May be better something like "Lovelace" or "Byron"? Just to avoid the
tons of porn related material about the various "Ada" showgirls.... :-
( (Thank you google to index also the porns...)

- I can understand also the guys that reading my post will thought:
"Hey, man!! You MUST know everything about POSIX and ADA and C and
LINUX and IEEE standard and ISO standards and...{put what you want}" -
Yeah guy! You have reason, but not everyone has so strong knowledge of
all this materials... is for that reason a nice and FOCUSED
documentation about libflorist would be interesting... saying "You
must already know" is not a nice reason to avoid to write
documentations! I work in automatic machines and the documentation is
compared as a SAFETY FEATURE of the machine itself... just to tell you
how a well written document is very important to avoid troubles...
(very often with LEGAL - i.e. -> JAIL - implications... ;-)))