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Date:      Mon, 1 Jan 1996 14:26:26 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: minor change to ls -l
Message-ID:  <9601011926.AA11642@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199601011855.TAA23513@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <9601011806.AA12318@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199601011855.TAA23513@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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<<On Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:55:26 +0100 (MET), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> said:

> previous behaviour is retained for most of the entries.  By now, two
> people complained about this being inconsistent.  In case this is the
> general opinion, we could convert it to always print the minor # in
> hex, of course.

The question for me is: will mknod(8) accept a minor number in hex?
If not, and you plan to stick with this change, then you need to
change mknod as well.

-GAWollman

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