Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:36 -0800
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 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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