Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:22:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> Can I presume that the code is still disabled because nothing has 
> been done with it since '96?

Yes.  The only change in ioctl since it was written was some
enhancements to the docs.

The main reason for disabling it was that Unix programs which see
TIOCGWINSZ defined assume that the underlying functionality is
supported as well, which in our case it isn't (you will notice that
the Unix-style code for ioctl is completely missing from
src/libc/compat/ioctl/ioctl.c).  I had such problems in GNU Fileutils
and in Ispell.