Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:26:55 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul |
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:17:00PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > No, I'll leave that to Greg. If you want my 2 (Euro-) Cent I'd rather avoid > > exposing a dev_t to userspace wherever possible. > > Understood. Especially since the recent upsizing of dev_t broke > applications trying to be too clever about dev_t. However, look at this: > > # cat /sys/class/tty/console/dev > 5:1 > > Does this major:minor textfile export address your concerns?
No. I'd really love to avoid having any userspace (escept makedev/udev) to use dev_t as anything but a cookie, i.e. trying to make sense from it.
Having a special raw, non-redirected console device as in Al's patch is *much* cleaner. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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