From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-21T23:14:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ioctl problem

Hi,

In message "Ioctl problem"
    on 03/12/21, Phil Callihan <pcallihan@columbus.rr.com> writes:
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|I'm trying to use Ruby IO:ioctl on /dev/mixer.  It work with c but not 
|with ruby.  I sure it a dumb mistake, but I can see it.  Below is a ruby 
|program that fails and the c program that work.  Thanks ahead of time.
|pc

You mean like this?

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK = 0x80044dfe

mixer = File.open("/dev/mixer", "w+")
devmask = [0].pack("i")
mixer.ioctl(SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK, devmask)
printf "devmask[%08x]\n", *devmask.unpack("i")