Re: ENOTTY from ext3 code?

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 15:31:21 EST


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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