Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:48:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: >> For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL >> rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common >> misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux. > > ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising > anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess) >
No argument there.
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