Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:10:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Fw: Windows 2000 /dev/null permission query
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> > Since IOCTL is broken on W2K, we probably should decide how to fix
> > that (see my other mail), and then begin fixing it.  The first step
> > would be to prepare a list of IOCTL subfunctions called by the library
> > and rgeir callers; the next step is to see whether all the IOCTL
> > subfunctions are broken or only some.
> I need to do some background reading about this to get up to speed. By IOCTL
> are we talking about 44xx calls?

Yes, IOCTL is implemented in DOS by subfunctions of function 44h.