Date:	Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:04:43 +0300
From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il. (Eli Zaretskii)
To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Subject:	Re: TTY Flags
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> port to DOS.  I would suggest that the library should not contain a function
> called ioctl, rather it should contain both dos_ioctl and unix_ioctl.  That
> way, someone porting code finds out at link time or earlier that ioctl is a
> problem which must be looked at carefully rather than getting strange
> failures when ioctl is called with arguments appropriate for another
> operating system.  A simple #define then selects the desired variant.

In addition to that, each XXXX_ioctl() should be prototyped on a different
.h file, which will enable to #define it to be just ioctl() automagically.

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