Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor | Date | 21 Apr 2003 11:49:22 -0700 |
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Followup to: <UTC200304210139.h3L1duq18832.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > A second version of mknod64 for i386. > There are no assumptions on the size of dev_t. > > sys_mknod takes unsigned int (instead of dev_t) > sys_mknod64 takes two unsigned ints. >
Why unsigned int? If we have a legacy call it should presumably use the legacy __u16 format.
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