Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 06 Jul 2007 20:14:39 +0200 |
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"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)
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