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Bug #12872

ioctl(2) needs additional ENOTTY documentation

Added by Ryan Zezeski 4 months ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Robert Mustacchi
Category:
-
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Bite-size
Tags:
Gerrit CR:
737

Description

While reviewing some driver code I noticed it was returning ENOTTY for an invalid ioctl request. This threw me as I would have expected something more logical, like EINVAL. When I looked at ioctl(2) it said that a bad request should result in an EINVAL, as I would have expected. I brought this up with Robert and sure enough this involves a bunch of UNIX history, but the end result is that drivers are supposed to return ENOTTY for a invalid ioctl request (though it seems its EINVAL for a STREAMS device, and that's what ioctl(2) was documenting). As our ioctl(2) documents both STREAMS and non-STREAMS devices, we should mention the ENOTTY semantic.

History

#1

Updated by Electric Monk 4 months ago

  • Gerrit CR set to 737
#2

Updated by Robert Mustacchi 4 months ago

I tested this via man(1).

#3

Updated by Electric Monk 4 months ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit 207eb048d59b803f49e5ebdbfdb1ed33848b198f

commit  207eb048d59b803f49e5ebdbfdb1ed33848b198f
Author: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
Date:   2020-06-25T18:15:43.000Z

    12872 ioctl(2) needs additional ENOTTY documentation
    Reviewed by: Ryan Zezeski <ryan@zinascii.com>
    Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk>
    Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>

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