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
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