Re: tlug: more on CDROM drivers..

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > According to the ioctl manpage, -EPERM isn't valid, and it should
> > return nothing but -EBADF, -ENOTTY, or -EINVAL.  Very strange.
> 
> Not really.  That particular man page was filched from a 1993 BSD source.
> The kernel source is usually considered to be 'more correct' when things
> like this crop up.

still, it's essentially the same error (I think that 'Operation Not
Permitted' is more correct than 'Invalid Argument'), and ide/scsi
shouldn't report it differently, IMHO.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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