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Subject: Re: Location of ioctl.c
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.93.970806225930.4242A-100000@konig> from Zoltan Sebestyen at "Aug 6, 97 11:01:16 pm"
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Zoltan Sebestyen writes:
> Hi,
>
>  Where can I find the source of the ioctl function?
> (I've got the FreeBSD-RELEASE CDROM and install the sources in /usr/src.)

It's in /usr/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c.  The question is whether you
really want to look at this particular function; most of the work is
done by the individual device drivers.

Greg