Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:56:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <3C8B9E4F.BE3E3B3E@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203092302500.56939-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > it will be a random unique number > that will be valid for that boot but may be completely different after the > next boot. Heh. Solaris does this. THe "random" value can be dereferenced out of /dev/kmem to read the device structure (it's the pointer to the device structure in the KVA). 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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