From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:36 -0800 Message-ID: <45E74E30.8080909@goop.org> References: <20070117094658.GA17390@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070225022326.137b4875.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070301183445.GA7911@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <45E74238.3040606@goop.org> <20070301225855.24ecaba0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com, alex@clusterfs.com, suzuki@in.ibm.com To: Alan Return-path: Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:40396 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030377AbXCAWFj (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:05:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070301225855.24ecaba0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Alan wrote: > A lot of people get confused about -ENOTTY, but it is the return for > attempting to use an ioctl on the wrong type of object, so this appears > to be quite correct. This is a syscall though; ENOSYS is probably a better match. J