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ioctl (Input Output ConTroL) is a system call for device-specific I/O operations and other operations which cannot be expressed by regular system calls and it provides an interface through which an application can communicate directly with a device driver(or any other global kernel space variables). Applications can use the standard control codes or device-specific control codes to perform direct input and output operations.

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