Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3

[Erik Mouw]

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On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:32:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> -ENOSYS is the normal return for an unknown syscall. -ENOTTY for an
> invalid ioctl (-EINVAL I think is wrong ?)

About a year ago -ENOTTY was explained like this:

  IOW, "not a tty" used to mean "WTF are you using ioctls here?"

          - Al Viro explaining ENOTTY on linux-kernel

(Hey, the kernelnewbies.org fortunes file is useful, right? ;)

Erik

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