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Reference: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/258361/

How is this useful?

Knowing that no error occurred but the ioctl() command was not recognized is a useful piece of information.  Suppose, for example, I have nfds open character drivers in an array fd[].  Then I could do something like this:

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  for (i = 0; i < nfds; i++)
    {
      ret = ioctl(fd[i], cmd, 00ul);  /* No argument in this example */
      if (ret < 0)
        {
          int errcode = errno;

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          if (errcode != ENOTTY)
            {
              /* Other errors, including EINVAL, are fatal */

              return -errcode
            }
        }
      else if (ret >= 0)
        {
          return OK;  /* Success! */
        }
    }

  return -ENOENT;
}


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