Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:41:47 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t Message-ID: <3C8B002B.D42A8572@mindspring.com> References: <27966.1015713342@critter.freebsd.dk> <p05101533b8b0508ebb56@[128.113.24.47]>
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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
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