Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:11:18 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() |
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:36 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Alan wrote: > > A lot of people get confused about -ENOTTY, but it is the return for > > attempting to use an ioctl on the wrong type of object, so this appears > > to be quite correct. > > This is a syscall though; ENOSYS is probably a better match.
ENOSYS indicates quite different things and ENOTTY is also used for syscalls. I still think ENOTTY is correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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