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Subject: Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:58, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > That is currently done (-EINVAL), but the emulation layer logs an 
> > warning.
> 
> Perhaps we need new error code -EEMULATION with message "not supported
> within this emulation"?

-ENOSYS is the normal return for an unknown syscall. -ENOTTY for an
invalid ioctl (-EINVAL I think is wrong ?)

Alan