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The ioctl system call is a low level I/O system call that allows the developer a fine-grained ability to change certain things about devices. For example, it can let you use asynchronous I/O handling instead of synchronous, blocking or unblocking, etc.
Since this is such a low level command the abilities will vary widely with the Operating System and the actual device. It should only be used by device handling code that knows exactly what the effect will be.
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What is an Ioctl in windows programming?
there is no IOCTL in windows programming. You will find device control methods for windows in the following pagehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363219%28VS.85%29.aspx
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on the manufacturers site for a recovery tool.
Why you need to add new system calls to kernel of Linux?
Any hardware interaction requires some type of syscall, but most every imaginable interaction is already implemented. Rarely are new syscalls added. The ioctl mechanism is often used to implement a similar type of call without all of the necessary syscall framework.
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Call a plumber.
What is the difference between system call and trap?
A system call is started with some form of trap-instruction.
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