Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: On re-working the major/minor system | Date | 9 Dec 2001 13:57:21 -0800 |
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Followup to: <8EWhHLVmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > 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. >
It's not "future" anymore... Austin is now IEEE 1003.1-2001 and thus the new POSIX standard.
Anyway, look for things like tar, cpio, ISO 9660 and that class of standards.
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