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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:26:59 +0100
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: ENOTTY from ext3 code?
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:09:32PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

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

I suppose you know the definition of ENOTTY?

Quoting POSIX:
[ENOTTY] Inappropriate I/O control operation.
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