[New-bugs-announce] [issue2712] enhanced ioctl

[ndbecker]

New submission from ndbecker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:

IIUC, current ioctl is not capable of handling arbitrary argument 
types.
This code will allow any arg type (such as structures with pointers to
embedded structures).

The code for _IOC is taken from linux and might not be portable.import 

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from ctypes import *

libc = CDLL ('/lib/libc.so.6')
#print libc.ioctl

def set_ioctl_argtype (arg_type):
    libc.ioctl.argtypes = (c_int, c_int, arg_type)

IOC_WRITE = 0x1

_IOC_NRBITS=	8
_IOC_TYPEBITS=	8
_IOC_SIZEBITS=	14
_IOC_DIRBITS=	2

_IOC_NRSHIFT=	0
_IOC_TYPESHIFT=	(_IOC_NRSHIFT+_IOC_NRBITS)
_IOC_SIZESHIFT=	(_IOC_TYPESHIFT+_IOC_TYPEBITS)
_IOC_DIRSHIFT=	(_IOC_SIZESHIFT+_IOC_SIZEBITS)


def IOC (dir, type, nr, size):
    return (((dir)  << _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \
	 ((type) << _IOC_TYPESHIFT) | \
	 ((nr)   << _IOC_NRSHIFT) | \
	 ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))

def ioctl (fd, request, args):
    return libc.ioctl (fd, request, args)
----

Example (not complete):
class eos_dl_args_t (Structure):
    _fields_ = [("length", c_ulong),
                ("data", c_void_p)]

args = eos_dl_args_t()
args.length = len (c)
args.data = cast (pointer (c), c_void_p)

from eioctl import *

set_ioctl_argtype (POINTER (eos_dl_args_t))

EOS_IOC_MAGIC = 0xF4
request = IOC(IOC_WRITE, EOS_IOC_MAGIC, 0x00, 0) # ignore size

err = ioctl (fd, request, args)

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 65933
nosy: ndbecker
severity: normal
status: open
title: enhanced ioctl
type: feature request

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