Here's one way:

my $msf0_fmt = "c3x"; # x because this is likely to 
                      # be padded. omit as needed
my $cdrom_addr_fmt = "$msf0_fmt I";
my $cdrom_tocentry_fmt = "c4 $cdrom_addr_fmt c"; # will need padding
                                                 # if struct cdte_addr
+ is larger
my $str = pack $cdrom_toentry_fmt; # make the string long enough
# ...
# call the ioctl on $str
my @data = unpack $cdrom_toentry_fmt, $str;

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You will probably need to adjust the formats a bit, they depend on how the data is packed by the C compiler.

There is code on Zaxo's scratchpad which may help, too. It is a translation of the Linux bit-twiddling for constructing ioctl commands. I expect it would be simple to adapt it to other platforms.

Update: Fixed an out of sequence line in the code. I've posted the scratchpad code at Linux ioctl command module.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: ioctl into or from perl structs by Zaxo
in thread ioctl into or from perl structs by Rhandom

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