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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
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Subject: Re: Larger dev_t
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:

> Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>
> >Yes: Let "mknod /dev/foo [bc] x y" die!
>
> I hope this never happens.  Improving the major/minor device scheme is
> reasonable; abandoning it would be a sad occurrence.  It would make Linux too
> "un-UNIXish"  (how's THAT for an an ugly neologism!) for my tastes.

I don't know... the command 'mknod' should probably remain for
compatibility reasons.  But the way that it does create the node can be
completely different.  For example the call could just be a wrapper to a
syscall or a write to a proc file.

I think Ingo had qualms with the process of creating of a device file
which is totally detached of the kernel's ability to service that device.

But I am with you.  The compatibility between *NIX should not be severed
so fast.

B.

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