Add Linux ioctl creation utilities #9748
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Shamelessly stolen from @mattnite 's now closed #6443 pull request, this adds some utilities for constructing modern IOCTLs, and also uses them in
linux.zig
for some constants that were previously broken on mips, powerpc, and sparc.From the ioctl manpages:
Therefore I have kept them as u32 values, and not as packed
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structures. There previous PR had also messed up the flags a little:write
is 1 andread
is 2, not the inverse.