From: Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The "black magic" of ioctl
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2010-10-21T04:50:37-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e74b0039-10cf-4329-9286-dddd05548333@26g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cbc04455-d43b-4cca-ab56-51b6273fdc08@j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com
On 21 Okt., 13:31, Francesco Piraneo Giuliano <fpira...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> But my application still need to be written and has to run under linux
> so to collect some data about linux' framebuffer I have to use ioctl;
> the only solution is to write all low level interfacing (open the
> device, get informations about, map it into memory) in C then write
> the upper level in Ada?
No you don't need to write anything in C.
> Any other suggestions will be strongly appreciated!
It's difficult to know your exact requirements since ioctl is a
variadic system call. Maybe you can post the equivalent C-code showing
how you call ioctl in C and then we can translate it into Ada.
- Mark L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 9:13 The "black magic" of ioctl Francesco Piraneo Giuliano
2010-10-21 10:20 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-21 11:31 ` Francesco Piraneo Giuliano
2010-10-21 11:50 ` Mark Lorenzen [this message]
2010-10-21 12:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-10-22 16:46 ` Francesco Piraneo Giuliano
2010-10-22 16:47 ` Francesco Piraneo Giuliano
2010-10-21 12:05 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-22 20:16 ` michael bode
2010-10-23 12:13 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-23 13:27 ` michael bode
2010-10-23 16:25 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-23 18:12 ` michael bode
2010-10-23 20:26 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-24 11:08 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-24 17:58 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-24 12:41 ` Frank J. Lhota
2010-10-24 17:56 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-24 18:36 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-25 0:45 ` Frank J. Lhota
2010-10-25 1:13 ` Frank J. Lhota
2010-10-25 18:56 ` Florian Weimer
2010-10-21 11:46 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-10-25 7:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-10-21 13:40 ` Julian Leyh
2010-10-21 13:58 ` Simon Wright
2010-10-21 20:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-10-22 16:40 ` Francesco Piraneo Giuliano
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