Ironclad exposes a number of physical and virtual devices to userland. All
of them are exposed under the /dev
location, and support a series of
standard operations, like being manipulated by the usual file-related
syscalls like read
or write
, while sporting device-specific
interfaces in the form of device-specific ioctl
requests.
When quering device-specific information, Ironclad exposes information a bit different than other kernels like Linux. Here is a quick list of the most notable differences:
BLKGETSIZE
/BLKGETSIZE64
ioctl
calls are not available,
instead, the block count and block size values of stat
are used.