From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 05:25:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 05:25:10 -0400 Received: from oxmail1.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.1]:41404 "EHLO oxmail.ox.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 05:25:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:09 +0100 From: Malcolm Beattie To: Jonathan Lundell Cc: Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Not a typewriter Message-ID: <20010511102109.A18500@sable.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jlundell@pobox.com on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:01:16PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services