Arla 0.42-RC2

Pavel Cahyna pcah8322 at artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Wed Apr 5 10:30:46 CEST 2006


On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:28:12PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Then it should return ENXIO ("no such device or address"), not ENODEV ("no 
> such device").  The distinction is subtle, but
> 
> - ENODEV means "there is no driver to handle that device node"

Actually ENODEV should mean the operation is not supported by device, at
least according to POSIX, which says:

"An attempt was made to apply an inappropriate function to a device; for
example, trying to read a write-only device such as a printer."

Pavel Cahyna


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