From: Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Not a typewriter
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:22:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFB9324.4BD63B62@mountain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010510173138.29690A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> I noticed that my favorite "errno" has now gotten trashed by
> the newer 'C' runtime libraries.
>
> ENOTTY has been for ages, "Not a typewriter".
> It's now been changed to "Inappropriate ioctl for device".
>
> Methinks that this means that ../linux/include/asm/errno.h now needs
> to be updated:
>
> -#define ENOTTY 25 /* Not a typewriter */
> +#define ENOTTY 25 /* Inappropriate ioctl for device
> */
>
> None of these strings are in the kernel, but the headers probably should
> show the "latest standard".
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
Probably so, but I think:
character device => typewriter
block => sheet of paper
block device => stack of paper
is not a bad analogy.
Cheers
Tom
PS. I didn't dare call it a ream of paper ;-)
--
The Daemons lurk and are dumb. -- Emerson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-11 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 21:42 Not a typewriter Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-10 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 7:22 ` Tom Leete [this message]
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2001-05-10 23:06 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-10 23:20 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-10 23:52 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 0:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-11 2:01 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 9:21 ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-05-11 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 1:32 ` Blue Lang
2001-05-11 9:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 12:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-11 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-15 14:01 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-05-11 16:07 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 17:03 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-05-11 21:43 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-13 23:39 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-12 4:18 ` John Alvord
2001-05-13 23:35 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-14 1:03 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-14 14:31 ` John Kodis
2001-05-14 15:25 ` Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 17:16 ` Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:29 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-05-14 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-14 1:31 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 18:37 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 23:18 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-14 22:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-11 23:57 Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
2001-05-14 2:59 Wayne.Brown
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