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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ENOTTY from ext3 code?
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:56:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C72BC0C.821EAB90@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020219190932.GA274@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> ext3/ioctl.c:
> 
> ...
>         return -ENOTTY;
> 
> Does it really make sense to return "not a typewriter" from ext3
> ioctl?

ERRORS
       ...

       ENOTTY d  is  not  associated  with  a  character  special
              device.

       ENOTTY The specified request does not apply to the kind of
              object that the descriptor d references.


Lots and lots of ioctls return ENOTTY when passed a request
which they don't understand.  There's probably a great reason
for this, but I can't immediately think what it might be.

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-19 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-19 19:09 ENOTTY from ext3 code? Pavel Machek
2002-02-19 20:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-19 20:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-19 20:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-19 21:20   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-19 21:26 ` Guest section DW
     [not found] <mailman.1014150283.20067.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-02-19 21:53 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-02-20  1:23   ` Alan Cox

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