Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:48:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:48:52 -0500 Received: from duteinh.et.tudelft.nl ([130.161.42.1]:11023 "EHLO duteinh.et.tudelft.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:48:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:58:17 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Machek , Andi Kleen , jt@hpl.hp.com, Mikael Pettersson , Linux Kernel Mailing List , discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3 Message-ID: <20030207225816.GD1879@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> References: <20030124193721.GA24876@wotan.suse.de> <15926.60767.451098.218188@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030128212753.GA29191@wotan.suse.de> <15927.62893.336010.363817@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030129162824.GA4773@wotan.suse.de> <15934.49235.619101.789799@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030203194923.GA27997@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030203201255.GA32689@wotan.suse.de> <20030207105818.GB750@elf.ucw.cz> <1044628339.14350.5.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1044628339.14350.5.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1174 Lines: 43 --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl mouw@nl.linux.org --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RDoI/PlVHJtIto0RAveyAJ4/6YCL8xRRxZkiRRV3He+6539USwCcCya8 nwl3wkahFJIvgC+SjcadHWI= =zUMV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/