From: Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
To: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Not a typewriter
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010511102109.A18500@sable.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105102001000.3943-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <p0510030eb720f425344e@[10.128.7.49]>
In-Reply-To: <p0510030eb720f425344e@[10.128.7.49]>; from jlundell@pobox.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:01:16PM -0700
Jonathan Lundell writes:
> FWIW, the comment in errno.h under Solaris 2.6 is "Inappropriate
> ioctl for device". I believe that's the POSIX interpretation.
POSIX has
[ENOTTY] Inappropriate I/O control operation
A control function was attempted for a file or special file
for which the operation was inappropriate.
which is quite a nice way of putting it.
--Malcolm
--
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-11 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 23:06 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-10 23:20 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-10 23:52 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 0:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-11 2:01 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 9:21 ` Malcolm Beattie [this message]
2001-05-11 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 12:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-11 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 1:32 ` Blue Lang
2001-05-11 9:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-15 14:01 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-14 2:59 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 23:57 Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
2001-05-11 23:18 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-14 22:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-11 18:37 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 16:07 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 17:03 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-05-11 21:43 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-13 23:39 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-12 4:18 ` John Alvord
2001-05-13 23:35 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-14 1:03 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-14 14:31 ` John Kodis
2001-05-14 15:25 ` Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 17:16 ` Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:29 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-05-14 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-14 1:31 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-10 21:42 Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-10 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 7:22 ` Tom Leete
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