Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:58:17 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3 |
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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:32:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > -ENOSYS is the normal return for an unknown syscall. -ENOTTY for an > invalid ioctl (-EINVAL I think is wrong ?)
About a year ago -ENOTTY was explained like this:
IOW, "not a tty" used to mean "WTF are you using ioctls here?"
- Al Viro explaining ENOTTY on linux-kernel
(Hey, the kernelnewbies.org fortunes file is useful, right? ;)
Erik
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