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user73636
user73636

Reputation: 79

System Call (Read/Write Vs ioctl)

Which one is faster in terms of Performance used for benchmark I/O (RAW) Read/Write Vs ioctl in linux? why and How?

Regards, Srinivasa Raghavan.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1548

Answers (1)

Oleksii Shmalko
Oleksii Shmalko

Reputation: 3768

I assume that read/write syscalls are faster just because of fact that ioctl should analyze request code first and then call the same function as read/write syscalls do.

Upvotes: 2

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