Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:36:47 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages? |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> >> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising >> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess) > > But it *isn't* a typewriter. Of course, it's not a giraffe either. >
The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather large, indeed.
This is getting philosophical.
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