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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