What does kern_ioctl do?

[Farhan Khan]

Does anyone know what kern_ioctl does?

It is called by sys_ioctl and located in
/usr/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c. OpenBSD and NetBSD do not have this
function, so its FreeBSD-specific, but I do not understand its
purpose.

Any ideas?

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Farhan Khan
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