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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:31:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: ENOTTY from ext3 code?
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> ext3/ioctl.c:
> 
> ...
> 	return -ENOTTY;
> 
> Does it really make sense to return "not a typewriter" from ext3
> ioctl?

s/typewriter/teletype/ and ext3 indeed is not one (and thus shouldn't _have_ 
ioctl() in the first place).  Seriously, -ENOTTY is normal error for "I don't
know anything about that ioctl".

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