Table of Contents

Introduction
Section 1: Overview
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Conformance
       1.2.1 Implementation Conformance
       1.2.2 Application Conformance
       1.2.3 Other Language-Related Specifications
Section 2: Normative References
  2.1 Normative References
Section 3: Definitions and General Concepts
  3.1 General Concepts
       3.1.1 Special Device
       3.1.2 Errors
  3.2 C Language Definitions
       3.2.1 POSIX.26 Symbols
       3.2.2 The Name Space
       3.2.3 Headers
Section 4: Conventions and Abbreviations
  4.1 Conventions
  4.2 Abbreviations
Section 5: Device Control
  5.1 Functions
       5.1.1 Control a Device
Annex A
  A.1 Related Open Systems Standards
  A.2 Other Documents
Annex B
  B.1 Background
  B.2 Existing Practice
  B.3 Relationship to ioctl() and the Perceived Needs
       for Improvement
  B.4 Which Difference Between posix_devctl() and
       ioctl() Are Acceptable?
  B.5 Rationale for the dev_info_ptr
  B.6 Rationale for No direction Argument
  B.7 Rationale for Not Defining the Direction Encoding
       in the command Word
  B.8 Recommended Practice for Handling Data Size Errors
  B.9 Recommended Practice for nbyte==0
  B.10 Recommended Practice for Driver-Detected Errors
Alphabetic Topical Index

Abstract

Specifies extensions to POSIX.1 {2} to support application portability at the source-code level.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
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