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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 02:45, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Hm python has ioctl support, where is the problem?
>
> Really? Anyway, I doubt that name of this ioctl is the same on the
> different unices, so that binary search is still the best from the
> portability POV.

You could always try the ioctl and fall back to a binary search if you get=
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