IEEE Standard for Information Technology – Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(TM)) – Part 26: Device Control Application Program Interface (API) [C Language]

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IEEE	09/09/2004	46

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IEEE 1003.26 – IEEE Standard for Information Technology – Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(TM)) – Part 26: Device Control Application Program Interface (API) [C Language]

New IEEE Standard – Inactive-Reserved.This standard is part of the POSIX series of standards. It defines an application program interface for controlling device drivers. Although it is based on the widely used ioctl() system call, the interface is type-safe and has a fixed number of parameters.