linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys

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Message-ID: <20070301231118.427544a4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:11:18 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, suparna@...ibm.com,
	cmm@...ibm.com, alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:36 -0800
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> Alan wrote:
> > A lot of people get confused about -ENOTTY, but it is the return for
> > attempting to use an ioctl on the wrong type of object, so this appears
> > to be quite correct.
> 
> This is a syscall though; ENOSYS is probably a better match.

ENOSYS indicates quite different things and ENOTTY is also used for
syscalls. I still think ENOTTY is correct.
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