Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mknod64(1) | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Apr 2003 17:31:04 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, actually, once glibc is updated to call SYS_mknod64 and have the > right MAJOR() and MINOR() macros, it shouldn't require any changes to > mknod(1).
Agreed. Assuming mknod(1) is dev_t-clean, this is obsolete as soon as glibc is updated for 64-bit dev_t. Until then, this is available and easy and works.
> What would probably be useful for mknod(1), if it doesn't already, is > to allow the major/minor to be specified in any of the standard bases, > i.e. using strtoul(...,...,0).
mknod(1) does not, I think. Actually, maybe it does... it uses some coreutils wrapper.
But my mknod64(1) certainly does :)
Hex, decimal, and binary should all work.
Robert Love
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