Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:09 +0100 | From | Malcolm Beattie <> | Subject | Re: Not a typewriter |
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Jonathan Lundell writes: > FWIW, the comment in errno.h under Solaris 2.6 is "Inappropriate > ioctl for device". I believe that's the POSIX interpretation.
POSIX has
[ENOTTY] Inappropriate I/O control operation A control function was attempted for a file or special file for which the operation was inappropriate.
which is quite a nice way of putting it.
--Malcolm
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