Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Alan wrote:
> ENOSYS indicates quite different things and ENOTTY is also used for
> syscalls. I still think ENOTTY is correct.
>   
Yes, ENOSYS tends to me "operation flat out not support" rather than
"not on this object".  I think we can do better than ENOTTY though -
ENOTSUP for example (modulo the confusion over EOPNOTSUPP).

(You can tell the patch has very little real substance if we're arguing
over errnos at this point :)

    J
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