From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 9 22:42:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F0D37B400 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0032.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.32] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16jx1w-0005pv-00; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:42:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3C8B002B.D42A8572@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:41:47 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t References: <27966.1015713342@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >By dev_t I guess you mean the userland version of it (udev_t): the > >combined major and minor number. > > Yes. The field in the 'struct stat' returned from stat(). Userland, > posix, etc. The struct is supposed to include fields named st_dev > and st_ino, of type dev_t and ino_t. Note also that POSIX requires them to be atomic types. So "long long" need not apply, FWIW. If you insist on going down this path, I'd like to see a binary compatability strategy as the first output of the project. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message