Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:27:34 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64 |
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:22:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> One way to avoid the bug is to always keep all dev_t numbers in "canonical > format". Which happens automatically if the interface is <major, minor> > rather than a 64-bit blob. > > I personally think that anything that uses "dev_t" in _any_ other way than > <major,minor> is fundamentally broken.
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