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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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andersen@codepoet.org (Erik Andersen)  wrote on 07.12.01 in <20011207145535.A18152@codepoet.org>:

> The C library, and the POSIX standard, etc, etc.

I think you'll find that there is *NOTHING* in either the C standard,  
POSIX, or the Austin future-{POSIX,UNIX} standard that knows about major  
or minor numbers.

MfG Kai
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