On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > > > > But it *isn't* a typewriter.
Most ioctls are not related to ttys in any way. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
