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. Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
J
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