From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:23:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:23:19 -0400 Received: from smtp.mountain.net ([198.77.1.35]:56582 "EHLO riker.mountain.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:23:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3AFB9324.4BD63B62@mountain.net> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:22:12 -0400 From: Tom Leete X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i486) X-Accept-Language: English/United, States, en-US, English/United, Kingdom, en-GB, English, en, French, fr, Spanish, es, Italian, it, German, de, , ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Not a typewriter In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "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