ioctl interface to Fsys

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Is the ioctl interface to Fsys still limited to 512 bytes?

  • Mario
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Mario Charest <mcharest@deletezinformatic.com> wrote:

: Is the ioctl interface to Fsys still limited to 512 bytes?

I don’t recall that ever being a limit; I think it is actually 8k
(IOCPARM_MASK allowing only 13-bits for the data length).

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It was limited to 512 bytes way back around 4.22 or so.

John Garvey wrote:

Mario Charest <> mcharest@deletezinformatic.com> > wrote:

: Is the ioctl interface to Fsys still limited to 512 bytes?

I don’t recall that ever being a limit; I think it is actually 8k
(IOCPARM_MASK allowing only 13-bits for the data length).

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“John Garvey” <jgarvey@qnx.com> wrote in message
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Mario Charest <> mcharest@deletezinformatic.com> > wrote:

: Is the ioctl interface to Fsys still limited to 512 bytes?

I don’t recall that ever being a limit; I think it is actually 8k
(IOCPARM_MASK allowing only 13-bits for the data length).

Ok thanks,

I’m using the scsi.tgz sample (dated 97) and the doc does mention
a limit of 512.

  • Mario