Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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.

    J
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