Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Sat Jul 7 04:14:39 EST 2007


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> 
> For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
> rather than ENOTTY) across the board.  This was unfortunately a common
> misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.

ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)

-Andi



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